Forwarded from Robert MacFarlan [Robert_MacFarlan(a)us.ibm.com]: Hello, I am mailing a few of the more active Linux User Groups in Australia to make them aware of community-based remote access systems that have become available. These systems are open to any Open Source Linux developer interested in developing / porting / or just tinkering w/ Linux on high-performance 64-bit IBM POWER5 or PPC970 systems. In the case of Australian National University's system - brought on-line last week - they are hosting a 4-way system w/ 16GB of RAM. This system can be a great place to test SMP and memory scalability. If any of your members are interested in working on these systems they are more than welcome to request an account. Additional systems will be added in the coming months. Australia National University: (http://clug.anu.edu.au/) Other systems being hosted world-wide include: Oregon State University Open Source Lab - PPC970 running Gentoo ( http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/PPC64/Home) SourceForge.net compile farm - POWER5 running SLES ( http://sourceforge.net/docs/compile_farm#cf_overview) University of Portland Linux on Power Portal - POWER5 running SLES ( http://egr.up.edu:8080/) University of Augsburg Debian on PowerPC - POWER5 running Debian ( http://tuxppc.rz.uni-augsburg.de/) Linux on Power @ Peking University - POWER5 running SLES ( http://ppclinux.pku.edu.cn/) Thank you for your time, and if you have any questions, please feel free to let me know. Cheers, Robert MacFarlan Strategist ISV Global Solutions Enablement IBM