We are excited to announce a major upgrade to our OpenPOWER cluster, which will greatly benefit our open source projects. In collaboration with IBM, we have successfully integrated POWER10 capabilities into our current OpenPOWER cluster, powered by OpenStack using KVM on PowerVM. This enhancement represents a significant step forward in our commitment to providing cutting-edge resources to the open-source community supporting the POWER ecosystem. A Leap in Computing Power: POWER10 POWER10, IBM’s latest processor architecture, is designed to deliver a significant leap in performance, efficiency, and security. It represents a new era of computing, addressing the ever-growing demands of modern applications. By introducing POWER10, we ensure that our projects have access to state-of-the-art technology, facilitating improved performance and innovation on the POWER platform.

Service(s) affected FTP mirroring service which includes (but not limited to) the following hostnames: ftp.osuosl.org ftp2.osuosl.org ftp-chi.osuosl.org ftp-nyc.osuosl.org ftp-osl.osuosl.org rsync.osuosl.org rsync2.osuosl.org Reason for outage We will upgrade all three servers’ operating system from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8. Unfortunately, due to an issue with how the disks were partitioned, we are unable to do in-place upgrades. This will require to do a full reinstall including re-syncing all of the FTP content on each system after reinstallation. The re-sync will likely take multiple days due to the size of the content.

My first Linux operating system was Ubuntu 10.04, when I was still young. It was my first experience with open-source software, which I didn’t fully appreciate at the time. I just wanted an operating system to work on my Dell hand-me-down computer and didn’t want to pay for windows. So, Linux was the first thing I found. Over the next few years I started to really appreciate open-source software. I realized its importance for the internet and myself since it was one of the only things that allowed me to have full control over my devices.

Reflections on My Time at the Open Source Lab by Travis Whitehead Working at the Open Source Lab has been the highlight of my computer science experience at Oregon State University. It was just by chance that I came across a job listing for the OSL. I had never heard of the organization, and it certainly was not a factor in my decision to pursue computer science at Oregon State University.

Matthew Johnson is an OSU alumnus who now works at Tesla as a senior software engineer. He is a veteran of the U.S Marine Corps Infantry and served as a law enforcement officer. At Oregon State University, he worked for the Open Source Lab and received a scholarship from CBT Nuggets. He recently sat down with College of Engineering to talk about his experience working at Tesla.