I'm excited. I could put this in a nice mATX case and make a proper desktop machine out of it. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raptor-Blackbird-Announced Since August we've been excited to hear about Raptor Computing Systems' new POWER9 open-source system in development and today at the OpenPOWER Summit in Amsterdam they announced Blackbird. Blackbird is their new low-end/low-cost POWER9 option. Blackbird is a micro-ATX motherboard intended for OpenPOWER desktops/appliances and other low-power computing needs. Blackbird is complementary to their higher-end Talos II POWER9 developer workstations. Details are still light on this new Blackbird offering, but we should hear more from Raptor Computing Systems soon. The company previously confirmed this new product is for use with IBM Sforza CPUs. More details as they become available, particularly on price and planned availability.
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https://twitter.com/stewartsmith/status/1047757825898897408 Just announced: microATX POWER 9 desktop board from @RaptorCompSys Announced at @OpenPOWERorg #OpenPowerSummit
We've got a few more scant details so far. https://www.talospace.com/ Good specs for a nice little desktop machine. I'll probably put it into that white cube case I posted pictures of in the rig thread. I haven't been using it since I tried upgrading my video and found that I could not have the new card + an optical drive installed simultaneously. I'll just use a smaller GPU, if not the built-in video.
