# SimpleITK on alternate HW arches (ppc64le/aarch64)
**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [April 25, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812 "2019-04-25T17:29:35Z")
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### Author:  [@jayfurmanek](https://discourse.itk.org/u/jayfurmanek)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/1 "2019-04-25T17:29:35Z")
Hi ITK community!
I’ve been running SimpleITK on ppc64le (IBM Power9 systems) and it builds and runs great. I was thinking it would be easier to contribute back for me and my team if there was a Travis job that would build on ppc64le like there is on Circle for the other arch’s. Travis does have ppc64le build queues now (conda-forge uses it).
I see there is a (old and probably unused) .travis file in the repo already. That could be a starting point.
Is there any interest in this for ppc64le and/or for other alternate architectures like aarch64 (ARM)?
thanks!
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### Author:  [@blowekamp](https://discourse.itk.org/u/blowekamp)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/2 "2019-04-25T17:52:50Z")
Hello jayfurmanek,
Cool! Glad to hear you are having success with ITK!
It would be a great contribution to enable Power 9 build when topics are merged in to master.
I’d recommend enabling the travis on your fork and starting to test it there. Building SimpleITK is time consuming and I don’t know how the travis systems will perform. I’d start with enabling shared libraries and disabling all wrapping i.e. `BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON` and `WRAP_DEFAULT:BOOL=OFF`. Also make sure you are using all the cores during the build with the “-j” make file flag.
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### Author:  [@jayfurmanek](https://discourse.itk.org/u/jayfurmanek)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/3 "2019-04-25T18:40:45Z")
Cool. I’ll give it a shot on a fork and let you know.
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### Author:  [@jayfurmanek](https://discourse.itk.org/u/jayfurmanek)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/4 "2019-04-25T18:58:13Z")
Quick question:
Does the conda build ([https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITKCondaRecipe](https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITKCondaRecipe)) get kicked off from the circleCI builds, or is that just done manually at release time?
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### Author:  [@blowekamp](https://discourse.itk.org/u/blowekamp)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/5 "2019-04-25T19:00:36Z")
Those are just done manually at release time. We may explore using Azure Pipelines in the future.
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### Author:  [@jayfurmanek](https://discourse.itk.org/u/jayfurmanek)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/6 "2019-04-25T19:22:55Z")
Gotcha. The conda recipe builds on ppc64le without any changes. If those builds get patched in, we could have Travis build the ppc64le conda packages as well.
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### Author:  [@888yyh](https://discourse.itk.org/u/888yyh)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2022, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/7 "2022-11-29T09:24:58Z")
Dear expert, i don’t know how to install SimpleITK on ppc64le, could you tell me how to install it?
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### Author:  [@888yyh](https://discourse.itk.org/u/888yyh)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2022, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/8 "2022-11-29T09:25:41Z")
Hi SimpleTK community, i don’t know how to install SimpleITK on ppc64le, could you tell me how to install it?
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### Author:  [@zivy](https://discourse.itk.org/u/zivy)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/9 "2022-11-29T13:43:44Z")
Hello @888yyh,
This question was asked and answered on the [SimpleITK GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK/issues/1781#issuecomment-1330645341).
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### Author:  [@888yyh](https://discourse.itk.org/u/888yyh)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2022, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/10 "2022-11-30T03:38:33Z")
I read the tutorial. I think the steps are a little complicated, aren’t they？\>.\<…Besides, i have no related experience.Do I have to compile on ppc64le? Is it also possible on Windows? I only have a remote server with ppc64le architecture, on which I have installed Python 3.6. My local system is Windows, with only 4GB of RAM(‘We suggest at least 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM plus an additional 2 GB per thread when building with multiple threads.’ mentioned in tutorial.). Based on these conditions, can I compile SimpleITK for ppc64le?I hope I can get some help. Thank you！ 😫
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### Author:  [@888yyh](https://discourse.itk.org/u/888yyh)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/11 "2022-11-30T03:41:12Z")
I read the tutorial. I think the steps are a little complicated, aren’t they？\>.\<…Besides, i have no related experience.Do I have to compile on ppc64le? Is it also possible on Windows? I only have a remote server with ppc64le architecture, on which I have installed Python 3.6. My local system is Windows, with only 4GB of RAM(‘We suggest at least 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM plus an additional 2 GB per thread when building with multiple threads.’ mentioned in tutorial.). Based on these conditions, can I compile SimpleITK for ppc64le?I hope I can get some help. Thank you！ 😫
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### Author:  [@888yyh](https://discourse.itk.org/u/888yyh)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/simpleitk-on-alternate-hw-arches-ppc64le-aarch64/1812/12 "2022-11-30T06:36:22Z")
By the way, the remote server is the ppc64le running linux.\>\<…what can i do…