We are also interested by deploying node on IBM Power. So this is great news.
Would be even better to have a native port of node.js but this is probably something IBM should handle. If you want to lobby for this, I'll support you. Thanks for investigating the emulation path. Bruno On Thursday, August 16, 2012 5:29:32 PM UTC+2, rgmilone wrote: > > I finally got nodejs working on IBM POWER. Thanks to Ben for the clue > that I could try to run it in an x86 emulator. Based on just some crude > tests so far it seems blazing fast but I have to see how it performs under > a real-world load before committing to any large scale app development. If > anyone is interested in nodejs on IBM POWER here's how I did it: > > I carved out a logical partition on my IBM Power System and installed > RedHat Linux 6.3 for POWER. Then I installed the PowerVM lx86 emulation > environment into that. This is a layer that translates the x86 instruction > set to POWER. Once I got all that working I simply installed nodejs just > like you would on a typical RedHat Linux box. > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
