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The LibrePower 2026 Annual Survey on open source for IBM Power is now open. If you work with AIX, IBM i, Linux…
IBM i · March 2026 We Ran an LLM on IBM i. No Linux. No Cloud. No GPU. llama.cpp compiled for AIX…
LibrePower · Linux on Power · March 2026 vLLM on IBM POWER: LLM inference without a GPU The first pre-built vLLM package…
Run an IBM Mainframe on an IBM POWER: Hercules Comes to AIX Hercules — the legendary open-source IBM mainframe emulator — now…
GridGain — the enterprise in-memory computing platform built on Apache Ignite — runs beautifully on IBM Power. Whether you need to accelerate…
Caddy — the modern web server with automatic HTTPS — now runs on IBM Power thanks to LibrePower. Whether you’re on AIX…
Forget the H100 clusters for a moment. At SIXE, we decided to push enterprise hardware to its absolute limits to answer a…
From “AIX is Slow” to “AIX Matches Linux” (with the right tools and code) In Part 1, I wrestled with CMake, implemented…
Bringing MariaDB to AIX, the Platform That Powers the World’s Most Critical Systems There are decisions in life you make knowing full…
At LibrePower, we have published Llama-AIX: a proof-of-concept for running lightweight LLM inference directly on AIX , using only CPU and memory—no…
We want to unleash the full potential of IBM Power We build community to grow the Power ecosystem – more solutions, more…
In the world of system administration, we often encounter oversized, expensive and complex tools. However, when we analyze what people are most…
