When one of you here have bought one, please give us you impressions.

It is really so silent?
How super fast is it?


:D

i have not. i would like something like that. but that is too expensive for an old cpu that runs alittle too hot.

Probably can't do much more than a Q6600 does today for 1/5th of the price
and powerconsumption.

The powerconsumption of the PPC970 is a joke in 2008, seriously.

Does it still requere as much energy as in 2006/2007. Don't IBM have modify the scale burning in ordre to make the PPC970 consume less ?

Hey, it's a Power developer machine!
Apple had Pentium 4 as developer machines... ;-)

Christian:
AFAIK there have been no major changes to the PPC 970 since
970MP arrived a few years back.

PowerStation features also a ATi 1650 graphics card:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/news/ ... 7-23.shtml

...and also SLOF.

The objective is to solve this problem:



That is Slide #4 of Building Future Products; Tools, enablement, community, accelerators, a presentation we made at the Power.org Venture Capital Symposium in December 2005.

The board inside the 'YDL Powerstation' is made by IBM and is called the Bimini. The Bimini is the PPC970MP Power.org Reference Design/Workstation. It is referenced on the SLOF page. The plan is to 'open source' the hardware design on Power.org as we did with the PegasosPPC design (when we were still involved in Power.org). The good news is that the IBM Power.org folks have finally understood the value of OpenFirmware, the utility of using an off-the-shelf graphics card and that Every Developer Needs a Desktop. That is where IBM should be leading us to keep the Power Architecture relevant and successful. After all, IBM owns the architecture. Let's see where IBM and Power.org drive this. We think it will need more more than YDL to be really successful, but it is a good start and we wish them all the best. It is nice to see that IBM is finally doing what it should be doing.

R&B :)

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