Re: Hardware donation

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> wrote:
> On 6/21/13 1:45 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>> On 06/21/2013 09:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote:
>>>
>>> We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to
>>> donate 2 of them to the community.
>>>
>>> There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for
>>> memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either
>>> 192G or 96G. I know that folks already have access to machines with a
>>> lot of cores, but I haven't seen reports of large memory machines.
>>>
>>> CPU details vary but we're only looking at 20ish cores (though AFAIK
>>> they're all 4 socket servers if that matters).
>>>
>>> Local drives are nothing fancy (though some might possibly be SSD).
>>
>>
>> I'm sure we could use these for the performance test farm. If we need
>> to replace some of the drives, the community has money for that.
>
>
> We might actually have some spare SSDs floating around; I'm checking. We're
> also thinking we might be able to get at least one of these up to 256G by
> swapping memory around.
>
> Am I correct that the most valuable thing to the community the large memory
> size?

Yeah, I believe it's memory and storage.

> Who can be point of contact from the community to arrange shipping, etc?

I can be.

Regards,
Mark