we have been donated access to a monster Talos II workstation with 128GB RAM and a 18 core 4x threaded (72-thread) processor. i have debian 10 ppc64 installed on it, and we need to get nmigen, and a stack of test software compiled and running. this includes coriolis2, nmigen, jacob's algorithmic FP library, the works. it is a critical resource for example in being able to verify correctness of the IEEE754 FP library, by having a compliant system against which testing can be done particularly for rounding modes. also it can act as another build server. the NVMe is only 128GB so we cannot go mad with it.
veera would you be happy to log in and manage this server? if so please send me an ssh pub key. we have to agree not to do anything illegal with this server, we are guests on raptor engineering's network. it will need fail2ban configuring, i have it installed already. whitelisting of the VPN 10.6.0.0/16, changing ssh to recognise port 922, enabling ssh fail2ban and also enabling recidive. also i think installing ssmtpd so that it can at least send email out, use 10.6.0.1 as the SMTP relay. the VPN also has access to libre-riscv.org, to the build server that jacob set up, and to my laptop. so we need to be careful.
updated comment #0 to actual core count (18 cores * 4 threads/core == 72 threads)
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #1) > veera would you be happy to log in and manage this server? if so please send > me an ssh pub key. > > we have to agree not to do anything illegal with this server, we are guests > on raptor engineering's network. > > it will need fail2ban configuring, i have it installed already. > whitelisting of the VPN 10.6.0.0/16, changing ssh to recognise port 922, > enabling ssh fail2ban and also enabling recidive. > > also i think installing ssmtpd so that it can at least send email out, use > 10.6.0.1 as the SMTP relay. > > the VPN also has access to libre-riscv.org, to the build server that jacob > set up, and to my laptop. so we need to be careful. Luke, I will try. How quickly it has to be done? How much time I would have to spend? I am sending you my ssh pub key by mail.
(In reply to vklr@vkten.in from comment #3) > > the VPN also has access to libre-riscv.org, to the build server that jacob > > set up, and to my laptop. so we need to be careful. > > Luke, I will try. appreciated. > How quickly it has to be done? How much time I would have > to > spend? it's not a major blocker at the moment. > I am sending you my ssh pub key by mail. appreciated. got it. what's your preferred username?
I have a Talos II at home and I got coriolis2 running there. coriolis2 still assumes that the architecture is i386 on POWER9 systems.
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #4) > (In reply to vklr@vkten.in from comment #3) > > > it's not a major blocker at the moment. > > > I am sending you my ssh pub key by mail. > > appreciated. got it. what's your preferred username? username: vklr
(In reply to vklr@vkten.in from comment #6) > username: vklr ok sorted, you should now be able to ssh -p922 vklr@23.155.224.75