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Welcome to the Raptor Computing Systems Wiki!

This community-driven Wiki provides documentation about:

• Raptor Computing Systems hardware and software like Talos II™ and Blackbird™
• application and software concerning OpenPOWER / PowerNV and POWER9.

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

Use the Raptor CS community forum for discussions.

Please consult the Wiki User's Guide on how to use and contribute to the Wiki.

Users

• Comparison of key features (Talos II/Lite/Blackbird/Condor)
• 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 Computing Systems Official Twitter Account
• Raptor Computing Systems Git Repositories - Official distribution channel for software/firmware releases related to RCS products
• Raptor Engineering Gitlab Instance - Open collaboration platform for software/firmware development related to RCS products
• Raptor Engineering Bugtracker
• OpenPOWER Foundation Homepage
• OpenPOWER Foundation YouTube Channel
• OpenPOWER-Community-Dev - Mailing list for discussing developer/grass roots OpenPOWER and/or PowerPC matters - hardware and software.
• OpenPOWER-HDL-Cores - Mailing list for discussing all matters related to HDL/Software implementation of OpenPOWER compliant CPU cores, SoCs, FPGAs etc.
• Talospace community user blog - news and other posts about POWER9/RCS
• The Cat Fox Life community user blog - news and other posts about OpenPOWER/PowerPC
• IBM Bounty Program on BountySource