Talos OpenPower 8 CPU Secure Workstation
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Talos is the world's first ATX-compatible, workstation-class mainboard for the new, free-software friendly IBM POWER8 processor and architecture. Designed for security-conscious users requiring high performance .
Preliminary Talos Specifications:
- 1 POWER8 SCM
- 8, 10, and 12 core variants available (190W TDP)
- 8 and 10 core variants also available in 130W TDP versions
- Hardware virtualization (HVM, qemu supported)
- POWER IOMMU
- Vector Multimedia eXtension (VMX)
- Vector Scalar eXtension (VSX)
- AES acceleration for VMX / VSX
- 8 DDR3 RDIMM slots w/ ECC support (2 memory controllers, 256GB maximum)
- 2 x16 Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) capable PCIe slots (8 shared lanes)
- 4 x8 PCIe slots
- 1 x1 internal mPCIe slot
- 1 legacy PCI slot
- 8 internal SATA 6Gbps ports
- 2 external eSATA 6Gbps ports
- 1 HDMI port
- 8x USB 3.0
- 2 GbE ports
- 2 external RS232 ports
- 2 internal RS232 ports
- 1 internal GPIO header
- 1 heatsink with 92mm fan
- Open-toolchain FPGAs
- Blob-free operation
- Fully libre (open-source) IBM OPAL primary firmware w/ PetitBoot interface
- Fully libre (open-source) OpenBMC secondary (IPMI / OoBM) firmware
- NO signing keys preventing firmware modification
- ...and much, much more!
Supported Operating Systems
- Little Endian Mode
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or higher
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 or higher
- CentOS 7 or higher
- Fedora 22 or higher
- Debian 8.0 ("Jessie") or higher
- Ubuntu 14.04.3 ("Trusty") or higher
- Gentoo (planned, build in process)
- Trisquel (planned for Trisquel 8)
- Big Endian Mode
- Fedora 22 or higher
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