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<div>We only routinely build/test with power clients but that’s because of prioritizing limited testing resources towards what our customers were using rather than avoiding known pitfalls. I do think that there are sites which also have power servers but I’ll
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<div>As for the hurdles of working on non-x86, there have been people in the Lustre community working on SPARC and ARM in recent times so they might be able to comment and I see that there is due to be a talk on Lustre on ARM servers at the upcoming LAD conference
- <a href="https://www.eofs.eu/events/lad17">https://www.eofs.eu/events/lad17</a> - which could provide some insights when it has been published</div>
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<div>If you do decide to investigate further then please do report back to the list about how you fare</div>
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<div>On 9/1/17, 3:24 AM, "lustre-discuss on behalf of Daniel Kidger" <<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org">lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org</a> on behalf of
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<div>This is my first posting to the list.</div>
<div>I have worked off an on with Lustre since a helping set up a demo at SC02 in Baltimore.</div>
<div>A long time has passed and I now find myself at IBM.<br>
The question I have today is:</div>
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<div>Are any sites running with IBM POWER hardware for their Lustre servers i.e. MDS and OSSs?</div>
<div>The only references I find are very old, certainly long before the availability of little-endian RedHat.</div>
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<div>And if not, what are likely to be the pain points and hurdles in building and running Lustre on non-x86 platforms like POWER?</div>
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