{"id":3681,"date":"2014-02-14T16:13:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T06:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2014-03-10T17:40:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T07:40:29","slug":"google-tests-homegrown-power8-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/14\/google-tests-homegrown-power8-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Tests Homegrown Power8 Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.enterprisetech.com\/2014\/02\/13\/google-tests-homegrown-power8-servers\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Having joined IBM now and working on Linux on Power, I’m allowed to be all happy and gleeful about a non x86 CPU architecture again, and one where Linux and free software really is a big deal.<\/p>\n

Some of my now colleagues talked about some things related to Power 8 at Linux.conf.au so you should go and check out their talks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.enterprisetech.com\/2014\/02\/13\/google-tests-homegrown-power8-servers\/ Having joined IBM now and working on Linux on Power, I’m allowed to be all happy and gleeful about a non x86 CPU architecture again, and one where Linux and free software really is a big deal. 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