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💻 Hello Old Friend, Talos II 💻

This was my first IBM POWER9 system, acquired in 2020 and built for home/desk use. Dual socket SMT4 Sforza, 144 threads, 256-512GB RAM, various storage/net/accelerators over the years. [1]

As expected, I fell in love and acquired four IBM Power System L922-2U [2], which are presently in the colo awaiting network rebuild (remote hands this time).

The Talos II has served a variety of purposes, with most of its time running FreeBSD PPC64le (&a bit of PPC64be for fun). Sometimes also Linux, back when I was tearing into qemu code for compiler optimization hypothesis testing, RTX GPU passthrough, +validating assumptions about qemu on P9/le handling amd64 & arm64 emulation.

So, out of storage! Into the rack! New user accounts! But first it needs updated OS drives (the 3x 64GB SATADOM in Raid-Z1 need to be repurposed), and a NIC (25G-DP CX-5 or X710-DA4).

- [1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#R
- [2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#I

@dexter electricity comes next 🧠

Eva's Talos II system, sitting on a storage push-cart, resting atop a 48 port switch for fun and ... "ESD protection?"... in transit back to its proper home.
Top-Down view inside of Eva's Talos II system, featuring dual IBM POWER9 SMT4 Sforza SKU, with a total 144 hardware threads (4 threads per core).
A front view from one of Eva's "HomeLab spill-over into the colo"... server racks, with a pink overlay box indicating the location of three IBM LC-922 Power9 systems. Above those are various Dell PowerEdge servers and an Arista DCS-7060CX-32S switch (ports facing rear). Located at the base of the rack is an APC UPS and APC ATS, handling automated failover of facility / battery power sources for casually "some-9s of uptime" high-availability compliance.
#FreeBSD#Linux#POWER9
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Sarah Lea

Wow, three of my Medium articles have been boosted in a row - thank you all for reading and sharing! 🙌

If you don't know the articles yet, here are the friend links:
:blobcoffee: How to Try Out an Open-Source AI Model Without Costly Hardware

A practical guide on how you can easily test an open-source language model like IBM Granite with Hugging Face Spaces and Gradio.

👉 medium.com/data-science-collec

:blobcoffee: 5 Important Lessons I Learned as a Tech Consultant over the Last 5 Years

Underestimated skills in IT consulting - and what I've learned from them.

👉 code.likeagirl.io/5-important-

:blobcoffee: How to Skip the AI Hype and Find Reliable Expert Information

How to find high-quality content about AI and avoid information overload.

👉 medium.com/data-science-collec

Enjoy reading :blobcoffee:

#llm #opensource #Huggingface #ibm #python #ai #consultant #technology #IT #support #career #careeradvice #customerexperience #productivity
#learning #machinelearning #deeplearning #datascience #datascientist

A practical guide on how to quickly try out an open-source language model using Hugging Face Spaces and Gradio.
Data Science Collective · How to Try Out an Open-Source AI Model Without Costly HardwareBy Sarah Lea
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Why Do Corporations Love Authoritarianism?

"If IBM's Nazi collaboration was just a bizarre historical anomaly, we could safely file it away with other horrifying 20th-century oddities.

Unfortunately, it's not.

It represents a base alignment problem between profit-seeking entities and authoritarian politics."

joanwestenberg.com/why-do-corp #IBM #Krupp #IG_Farben #Thyssen #RoyalDutchShell #Shell

westenberg. · Why Do Corporations Love Authoritarianism?The least fun fact you're likely to read today: IBM helped the Nazis. Through its German subsidiary Dehomag, "Big Blue" custom-engineered Hollerith punch card machines specifically designed to meet the Third Reich's requirements for tracking, sorting, and processing human beings. These were specialized systems developed to enhance the efficiency of
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪

And ultra compact #AI model for document #OCR by #IBM and #HuggingFace

marktechpost.com/2025/03/18/ib

MarkTechPost · IBM and Hugging Face Researchers Release SmolDocling: A 256M Open-Source Vision Language Model for Complete Document OCRConverting complex documents into structured data has long posed significant challenges in the field of computer science. Traditional approaches, involving ensemble systems or very large foundational models, often encounter substantial hurdles such as difficulty in fine-tuning, generalization issues, hallucinations, and high computational costs. Ensemble systems, though efficient for specific tasks, frequently fail to generalize due to their dependency on handcrafted pipelines for each sub-task. On the other hand, multimodal foundational models, although powerful, often suffer from high computational costs and reliability issues like hallucinations. Researchers from IBM and Hugging Face have recently addressed these challenges by releasing SmolDocling, a 256M
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Nick DeWolf Photo Archive
san jose, california
1957

hydro gyro
IBM campus, san jose

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© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

#photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #california #sanjose #IBM #hydrogyro #sculpture #structure #bobhoward #1950s
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