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Welcome to the Raptor Computing Systems Wiki!

Community provided information about Raptor Computing Systems' Talos™ systems and software, along with application and software level information concerning OpenPOWER / PowerNV and POWER9, is welcome here.

Please consult the Wiki User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Users

• Talos II Beginner's Quick Start Guide
• How-to guides
  • Verifying DVDs
• Platforms:
  • Talos II
  • Blackbird
  • Condor
• Platform Comparison to x86
• IRC chat
• Gallery of assembled systems
• Descriptions of user systems
• Glossary

News

Raptor + OpenPOWER

• August 19-20, OpenPOWER Summit 2019 North America - Raptor Computing Systems presentation and booth
• June 16–20, ISC 2019 - Blackbird on display according to IBM sponsored Q&A with Hugh Blemings
• IBM is stating that Power is not vulnerable to MDS vulnerabilites (Fallout, RIDL, ZombieLoad). 1, 2

Past events where RCS systems were on display are listed at the events page

This Wiki

• A Building FAQ has been started
• Initial RAM compatibility lists are now available
• Ultravisor State is still not very well understood
• Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities of 2018
• A Desktop Roadmap has been started.

Compatibility

Hardware

• POWER9
  • Memory compatibility
  • PCIe device compatibility
• Talos II specific compatibility
• Blackbird specific compatibility

Software

• Operating System Compatibility List
  • Fixes in Progress

Developers

• POWER9 Documentation
• OpenPOWER Firmware
• Compiling Firmware
• Software Porting Efforts
  • Firefox
  • Chromium
  • Tor Browser

External Links

• Raptor Computing Systems homepage
• Raptor Engineering's Bugtracker
• OpenPOWER Foundation homepage
• OpenPOWER Community Dev mailing list
• Talospace community user blogs - news and other posts about POWER9/Talos