Does anyone have any good pointers on why Ubuntu is adding a little-endian PPC port? I thought they had dropped the regular PPC port a while ago.
Googling around it seems the use for little-endian PPC is to be more easily compatible with GPUs. Is there really a market for running GPU computing with PPC64 CPUs?
• Growing interest in running entire OS in little-endian mode
– Ease porting of programs from other architectures
– Ease porting of programs which access files containing LE binary data
– Ease communication with GPUs
• New OpenPower Consortium
– IBM, Google, Tyan, Nvidia, Mellanox
Googling around it seems the use for little-endian PPC is to be more easily compatible with GPUs. Is there really a market for running GPU computing with PPC64 CPUs?