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WolfpackN64 
Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 8-Aug-2017 10:48:54
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Raptor Computing Systems is seemingly trying again with their Talos II workstation (a POWER9 based machine) after their original Talos failed through kickstarter. This time, they're just taking pre-orders (no kickstarter).

What I was most surprised to find is that they also take pre-orders for quad-core POWER9 CPU's (depending on whether these are SMT4 or SMT8 cores, that means 16 or 32 threads). These cost 310$, which is basically what you'd pay for a high end Intel Chip (and these POWER chips are much better at multithreaded workloads).

The motherboard is expensive (dual sockets, lots of ECC accepting RAM slots, redundant 1400W PSU, support for PCIe 4 (a first!) and other high-end features).

But what this also conveys is that a more cut-down version with these quad-core CPU's could be "relatively" affordable for a very powerful system.

For people who want to look at their options.
https://raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html

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kolla 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 8-Aug-2017 11:24:46
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@WolfpackN64

They mention the word "secure" far too often, makes me think that their product must have security issues.

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WolfpackN64 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 8-Aug-2017 11:59:14
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@kolla

It's because of the open firmware and lack of comparable features like Intel's AME and AMD's PSP.

That was part of their pitch for their first motherboard as well.

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daveyw 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 8-Aug-2017 23:27:50
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Can this run OS4?????

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ne_one 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 8-Aug-2017 23:43:02
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@daveyw

More importantly, will it blend?

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WolfpackN64 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 8-Aug-2017 23:58:33
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@daveyw

Well, Its a POWER chip capable of running in big endian. So there's nothing physically stopping OS4 from running on it (other then Hyperion making a port, which probably won't happen with this machine since it's way too expensive and not aimed at general consumers).

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@WolfpackN64

the web site dose not open up for me any one work for you

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Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 9-Aug-2017 9:23:27
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@mcbone

The website is quite slow. It usually loads, but it takes a while.

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Barana 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 9-Aug-2017 11:57:54
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It will run 4.x under emulation just as fast as an x1000 with cycles to spare.
Power has a new mate :)
Cameron kaiser has lumped up his card for one and intends to write Firefox Javascript JIT for power9 ,as he has done for g4 and g5 under tenfourfox.
OK I won't sleep tonight :)

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Rob 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 9-Aug-2017 16:28:41
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@WolfpackN64

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Well, Its a POWER chip capable of running in big endian. So there's nothing physically stopping OS4 from running on it (other then Hyperion making a port, which probably won't happen with this machine since it's way too expensive and not aimed at general consumers).


The $310 price tag for the CPU means that a less complex single socket design could come in around the same price as an X5000.

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WolfpackN64 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 9-Aug-2017 16:31:39
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@Rob

With a less exessive motherboard, PSU, normal RAM, normal PSU and so on. Yes, it could end around the same prise as an X5000 (maybe just a little more). The performance would be quite astronomical.

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tlosm 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 9-Aug-2017 19:47:18
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@WolfpackN64

just to clarify.
the ibm power9 is a bi-endian, can run little and big endian software just switching the kernel or more simple using the qemu kvm
for sure will be 1000 times more faster than the fastest ng amiga or ppc laptop present and furure.
the only issue is the psu . this machine need 1500w psu for have it up and running.
the prize for the mobo and cpu (the low spec) is 2300€ + vat in pre order
power9 is be and little andian, support hotplug,numa, altivec and altivec2, vsx and all acceleration possible and immaginabele for host and guest systems.

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@tlosm

They have dual high wattage PSU's because it needs to be able to run 2, up to 24 core POWER9 CPU's and Dual high end workstation GPU's. Total wattage numbers haven't been revealed for the single quad core CPU, but power draw, is supposedly quite a bit lower then POWER8.

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tlosm 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
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@WolfpackN64

will see in any way will be a great system for workstation purpose. and using kvm will made this machine run without issue osx leopard in kvm with 30 times the performances of a g5 quad.it mean it will render a 10min video for a quad in 3 seconds

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Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 9-Aug-2017 20:19:28
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@tlosm

It'll be a beast, but why run OSX Leopard (asking this as a Mac user)?

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toRus 
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Posted on 9-Aug-2017 21:20:46
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Finally, some interesting news. It's been boring in the last couple of decades.

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Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 9-Aug-2017 22:09:52
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toRus wrote:
Finally, some interesting news. It's been boring in the last couple of decades.



for Amiga fans 68k & PPC has been anything but 'boring' the last 5 years

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ferrels 
Re: Talos II POWER 9 workstation
Posted on 10-Aug-2017 5:33:43
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@WolfpackN64

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Raptor Computing Systems is seemingly trying again with their Talos II workstation (a POWER9 based machine) after their original Talos failed through kickstarter. This time, they're just taking pre-orders (no kickstarter). What I was most surprised to find is that they also take pre-orders for quad-core POWER9 CPU's (depending on whether these are SMT4 or SMT8 cores, that means 16 or 32 threads). These cost 310$, which is basically what you'd pay for a high end Intel Chip (and these POWER chips are much better at multithreaded workloads).


Why are you surprised that a company would take your money in a pre-order when their kickstarter campaign has already failed? What would surprise me is if anyone would be foolish enough to SEND them any money for pre-orders since their kickstarter campaign was a failure.

The specs look good on paper, which is seemingly all the folks at Raptor have. This is another project that one should steer clear of. The fact that they won't even allow you to cancel your pre-order should also be a red flag that they're gonna keep your cash even if they never ship the product......

If you read this page from their site: https://raptorcs.com/content/base/support.html
you'll see that you're basically throwing your money down a hole and they have no intention of shipping you a product, at least not in this century if at all.

The rest of the site yields only blank pages under Documentation and Software links. This is as bad as those Nigerian Prince email scams. Did you even read anything past the initial home page? They don't even list any available operating systems for this thing.

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gregthecanuck 
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Posted on 10-Aug-2017 6:01:43
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To me the dual-processor motherboard is complete overkill for an initial offering. Sure that could be a next-generation or power-user (heh) option but for goodness sakes that must have added a lot of extra costs.

What I do find interesting is the low incremental cost to go from 1 to 2 processors. Does that reflect the actual costs of the Power9 chips?

Still an interesting product though.


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KimmoK 
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Posted on 10-Aug-2017 6:20:34
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related .. kind of...

Newtek raptor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster#Video_Toaster_Screamer

And if AOS4 never get's ported to POWER... perhaps some will use it via screamernet -kind of solution.

Some stuff about how Amigas started to use a lot of CPU cores:
http://www.timaxmedia.com/html/help/Distributed_Rendering__Introduction_.htm

...
http://forums.newtek.com/showthread.php?26572-Screamernet-tutorials
http://www.dynamix.plus.com/siamese/samba_jc.htm (article aimed at Lightwave owners with both Amigas and Windows system)
http://aminet.net/package/gfx/3d/ScreamerII

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