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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Monday, 04-Feb-2019 23:27:09 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC #Blackbird mainboards now available for pre-order! Pre-order your affordable, owner-controllable Blackbird mainboard or bundle today at https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/BK1MB1/intro.html / https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html ! - nula likes this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 00:12:20 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC #TalosIILite mainboards now available for pre-order! Pre-order your affordable, owner-controllable TalosII Lite system today at https://raptorcs.com/TALOSIILITE/ - Falgn0n, extropic [tech aspect], olddellian and EndOfFile like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 09:57:42 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC Want even more performance out of your #TalosII #POWER9 CPU? Many POWER9 CPUs run under the rated TDP with real world workloads; overclocking them is a way to get a little more oomph out of the world's fastest libre-friendly CPU! Initial instructions here: https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/POWER9/Overclocking - ? (。◕‿‿◕。) and Falgn0n like this.
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Ian Kelling (iank)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2018 02:15:51 UTC Ian Kelling @raptoreng overclocking a modern cpu with software, including bios and firmware. awesome.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2018 01:59:10 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC Due to the recent acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft, we're migrating our public repositories that were on GitHub at https://github.com/raptor-engineering over to our public GIT server at https://git.raptorengineering.com/git/. Bugtracker is now https://bugs.raptorengineering.com. No Microsoft account needed! ? - Hellion, ? (。◕‿‿◕。) and Charles Stanhope and 3 others like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 02:51:43 UTC
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 20:14:58 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC Say hello to the newest member of the #TalosII family, the Talos II Lite ! See more details on this low cost, 1 socket system at https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL1BC1/intro.html ! - ? (。◕‿‿◕。) and ki7sun3 like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 20:48:24 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC Check out a #DIY #OpenPOWER #POWER9 system build video from a satisfied #TalosII user!
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/File:TalosII_SystemAssembly_nashimus_v3.mp4- ? (。◕‿‿◕。), PushWall and Quillasp like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Friday, 11-May-2018 19:32:39 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC #purism forced to take down public documentation on #intel firmware and devices. https://puri.sm/posts/intel-fsp-reverse-engineering-finding-the-real-entry-point/ … #Intel hostile to open firmware and reverse engineering, Linux-powered #OpenPOWER, #POWER9, and #TalosII are not. Why not choose the platform that respects your rights? - ? (。◕‿‿◕。), mangeurdenuage and olddellian and 3 others like this.
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Radical Edward (radicaledward)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2019 13:28:26 UTC Radical Edward @raptoreng
Archived version https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://puri.sm/posts/intel-fsp-reverse-engineering-finding-the-real-entry-point/ -
nebunez :debian: (nebunez)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2019 14:09:05 UTC nebunez :debian: @RadicalEdward @raptoreng I don't see an archived version in 2019?
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Radical Edward (radicaledward)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2019 16:40:28 UTC Radical Edward @nebunez @raptoreng you are correct
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Wednesday, 02-May-2018 17:53:10 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC An unboxing /and/ an initial review of Talos II...check them both out here!
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2018/04/unboxing-talos-ii-its-here.html
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-semi-review-of-raptor-talos-ii.html- ? (。◕‿‿◕。) likes this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 02:28:01 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC Check out what using a 40-core (160 thread) #TalosII with optional #AMD WX7100 GPU looks like! Screenshot of actual system showing Firefox, Blender, and htop under #KDE Plasma 5 on #Debian .
Benchmarking application running in background, hence CPU loading. https://social.raptorengineering.io/attachment/414- ? (。◕‿‿◕。), jjg and Rain ? and 7 others like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 19:57:41 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC #POWER8 and prerelease variants of #POWER9 vulnerable to #Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and #Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 / CVE-2017-5715). #POWER9 is being patched and will not be vulnerable at ship, and there will be no performance loss versus current #POWER9 samples. Patches coming soon. - ? (。◕‿‿◕。), Tim Howes and mangeurdenuage and 2 others like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 19:45:49 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC While you are correct that there is a pattern of steppings, this is entirely coincidental and reflects additional steppings that were required for POWER8E, and then even more that were needed for POWER9.
Preproduction samples of POWER9 are generally DD1.2 (now unsupported by firmware), DD2.01 (second prototype pass, supported but with serious defects), and DD2.1 (almost fully functional but with defects requiring another stepping). DD2.1 is what we're basing our no performance loss comparison against.? (。◕‿‿◕。) likes this. -
Torpcoms (torpcoms)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 19:48:40 UTC Torpcoms To be precise, POWER9 DD2.2 silicon or later should be safe from which CVEs exactly? Is the kernel change you refer to the retpoline patch? Which CVE is the Spectre same-process read vulnerability?
CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre - GPZ variant 2)
CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre - GPZ variant 1)
CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown - GPZ variant 3)
Also relevant to prospective customers; IBM's bulletins on this issue and FixCentral refer to only IBM products:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1026811
In the event of a future vulnerability, will firmware patches for POWER9 chips be available from IBM directly, or does IBM provide firmware only to board manufacturers (such as yourself)? -
Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2018 22:05:21 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC We're tracking information on Spectre and Meltdown here:
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Speculative_Execution_Vulnerabilities_of_2018
As far as future updates are concerned, firmware patches for OpenPOWER systems will be posted to the official IBM OpenPOWER GitHub repositories, and also to our repositories as soon as the patches are integrated into our firmware stack.Vikings repeated this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2018 22:02:11 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC See one of the world's first #TalosII #OpenPOWER #POWER9 systems in action at #FOSDEM2018, courtesy @vikings ! - Vikings, Charles Stanhope and Marcin Cieślak like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2018 02:26:18 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC #AMD highly privileged #PSP vulnerable to attack, with full control of the PSP environment possible via PC manipulation. The PSP has FULL access to the entire system memory space; this theoretically allows undetectable #rootkits on ALL #AMD platforms. http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jan/12 - ? (。◕‿‿◕。) likes this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 18:42:50 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC #AMD currently indicating RCE not possible on #PSP with this exploit. Waiting for public verification outside AMD before sounding the all-clear; we believe the fundamental design of #AMD systems with the #PSP continues to be a security and integrity risk. ? (。◕‿‿◕。) and Torpcoms like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2018 21:44:08 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC Recent #AMD #PSP exploit may also open door to transparently defeating #SME (encrypted virtual memory). The #PSP manages the #SME encryption key according to #AMD documents https://social.raptorengineering.io/url/390 - ? (。◕‿‿◕。) and jake404 like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 10:56:19 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC And this is a good example of why @RaptorCompSys has chosen to offer open-friendly #AMD GPUs as first-class citizens for #TalosII , versus closed and locked #NVIDIA https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/ … via @theregister - ? (。◕‿‿◕。) and ? A. Wilcox reluctantly like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 10:55:52 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC Feeling the heat yet? #OpenPOWER is completely transparent and security hardened, switch to a vendor that doesn't hide critical flaws for decades with the #POWER9 #TalosII from @RaptorCompSys !
https://hothardware.com/news/intel-cpu-bug-kernel-memory-isolation-linux-windows-macos- ? (。◕‿‿◕。) and ? A. Wilcox reluctantly like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2017 20:20:00 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC Want to learn more about #TALOSII and the #OpenPOWER #POWER9 technology driving it? Check our the rapidly growing Raptor Computing Systems Wiki at https://wiki.raptorcs.com ! - ? (。◕‿‿◕。) and PushWall like this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 20:20:41 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC Update from @RaptorCompSys:
"PRODUCTION UPDATE: Today we learned that a key supplier was unable to meet their commit date. Initial shipments are delayed until late January / February as a result. Q4 orders will ship first, then Q1. We'll be using this time to make #TALOSII even better!"-
Torpcoms (torpcoms)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2017 22:43:25 UTC Torpcoms Could you elaborate on what you are working on to make Talos "even better"?
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2017 20:19:44 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC We're working on the firmware to add new features not seen in other OpenPOWER systems. We'll let everyone know what those are once the systems near ship!
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2017 11:26:58 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC "Neutering" the ME won't help avoid complete ME-based compromise of Intel machines: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/09/chipzilla_come_closer_closer_listen_dump_ime/
Time to switch to #TalosII and #OpenPOWER !- ? (。◕‿‿◕。) likes this.
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Raptor Engineering, LLC (raptoreng)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2017 18:25:29 UTC Raptor Engineering, LLC Ever wonder just what's under that silver heatsink? Check out photos of the Microsemi SAS controller from the most recent prototypes! https://social.raptorengineering.io/attachment/375 - Eliza Pornberry KSC ??? likes this.