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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.

You can browse the list of all pages or use the search function to search for specific topics (since not every wiki page is directly linked here).

Users

• Talos II Beginner's Quick Start Guide
• How-to guides
  • Verifying DVDs
  • Getting System Information
• 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 Computing Systems community forums
• Raptor Computing Systems helpdesk
• Raptor Engineering's Bugtracker
• OpenPOWER Foundation homepage
• OpenPOWER Foundation YouTube Channel
• OpenPOWER Community Dev mailing list
• Talospace community user blogs - news and other posts about POWER9/Talos
• The Cat Fox Life community user blogs - news and other posts about OpenPOWER/PowerPC
• BountySource IBM OpenSource Bounties