GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Laurent GUERBY]

Hi,

The GCC Compile Farm project is pleased to announce that two bi-quad
core machines with the latest Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processor and
16GB of RAM donated by AMD are now available online in datacenter space
kindly donated by INRIA Saclay. 

All in all, gcc11 to gcc17 provide 38 64-bits cores to GCC and Free
Software developpers including 3 octo-core machines with GCC trunk
bootstrap times for all languages including Ada in the 20 minutes range.

Procedure to apply for an account on the GCC Compile Farm is available
here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm

Feel free to pass the word to other free software projects as well,
there are currently 39 accounts on the farm.

Many thanks to the following people and organisation who made
this setup possible:

- Sebastian Pop and Christophe Harle of AMD for donating the two
machines

- Albert Cohen, Sylvain Girbal and Philippe Lubrano of INRIA Saclay
for donating hosting and setup help

- Loic Dachary and Eva Mathieu of FSF France for handling orders of
various equipment including an UPS.

Sincerely,

Laurent

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Richard Guenther]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  The GCC Compile Farm project is pleased to announce that two bi-quad
>  core machines with the latest Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processor and
>  16GB of RAM donated by AMD are now available online in datacenter space
>  kindly donated by INRIA Saclay.
>
>  All in all, gcc11 to gcc17 provide 38 64-bits cores to GCC and Free
>  Software developpers including 3 octo-core machines with GCC trunk
>  bootstrap times for all languages including Ada in the 20 minutes range.
>
>  Procedure to apply for an account on the GCC Compile Farm is available
>  here:
>
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm
>
>  Feel free to pass the word to other free software projects as well,
>  there are currently 39 accounts on the farm.
>
>  Many thanks to the following people and organisation who made
>  this setup possible:
>
>  - Sebastian Pop and Christophe Harle of AMD for donating the two
>  machines
>
>  - Albert Cohen, Sylvain Girbal and Philippe Lubrano of INRIA Saclay
>  for donating hosting and setup help
>
>  - Loic Dachary and Eva Mathieu of FSF France for handling orders of
>  various equipment including an UPS.
>
>  Sincerely,

Isn't this worth an entry on the GCC news page?

Richard.

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Laurent GUERBY]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 11:25 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  The GCC Compile Farm project is pleased to announce that two bi-quad
> >  core machines with the latest Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processor and
> >  16GB of RAM donated by AMD are now available online in datacenter space
> >  kindly donated by INRIA Saclay.
>
> Isn't this worth an entry on the GCC news page?

If there's consensus, I can certainly propose a patch.

Sincerely,

Laurent

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:45:15PM +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 11:25 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  The GCC Compile Farm project is pleased to announce that two bi-quad
> > >  core machines with the latest Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processor and
> > >  16GB of RAM donated by AMD are now available online in datacenter space
> > >  kindly donated by INRIA Saclay.
> >
> > Isn't this worth an entry on the GCC news page?
> 
> If there's consensus, I can certainly propose a patch.

Please do.  We should thank people for significant contributions.

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[NightStrike]

On 5/21/08, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:45:15PM +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 11:25 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >  The GCC Compile Farm project is pleased to announce that two bi-quad
> > > >  core machines with the latest Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processor and
> > > >  16GB of RAM donated by AMD are now available online in datacenter space
> > > >  kindly donated by INRIA Saclay.
> > >
> > > Isn't this worth an entry on the GCC news page?
> >
> > If there's consensus, I can certainly propose a patch.
>
> Please do.  We should thank people for significant contributions.
>
>

For this, I think Laurent deserves significant thanks, as well.

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Richard Guenther wrote:
> Isn't this worth an entry on the GCC news page?

Yes, it certainly is!

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> If there's consensus, I can certainly propose a patch.

Please. :-)

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Joe Buck wrote:
> Please do.  We should thank people for significant contributions.

Fully agreed.  For some reason many here tend to be very shy when it
comes to that, so thanks for Richi for raising this in this case.

Gerald

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Laurent GUERBY]

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 02:35 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Fully agreed.  For some reason many here tend to be very shy when it
> comes to that, so thanks for Richi for raising this in this case.

Here is a proposal.

Sincerely,

Laurent

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--- index.html	22 May 2008 11:41:36 +0200	
***************
*** 45,50 ****
--- 45,56 ----
  
  <dl class="news">
  
+ <dt>May 22, 2008</dt>
+ <dd>The <a href="wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm project</a> has
+ made available to free softare developpers two bi-quad core servers
+ donated by <a href="http://www.amd.com/">AMD</a> with hosting donated
+ by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>
+ 
  <dt>May 19, 2008</dt>
  <dd><a href="gcc-4.2/">GCC 4.2.4</a> has been released.</dd>
 

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Joe Buck]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:44:34AM +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> + <dt>May 22, 2008</dt>
> + <dd>The <a href="wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm project</a> has
> + made available to free softare developpers two bi-quad core servers
> + donated by <a href="http://www.amd.com/">AMD</a> with hosting donated
> + by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>

"developers".

Also, the FSF has rather restrictive linking rules, so I don't think the
patch can include the link to AMD's site (the link to INRIA should be
fine).

Since we can't give AMD a link, we could at least list them first.
Perhaps something like

<dd>AMD has generously donated two bi-quad core machines with the
latest Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processor and 16GB of RAM
to the <a href="wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm project</a>
for use by free software developers.  Hosting is donated
by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Laurent GUERBY]

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 09:39 -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:44:34AM +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > + <dt>May 22, 2008</dt>
> > + <dd>The <a href="wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm project</a> has
> > + made available to free softare developpers two bi-quad core servers
> > + donated by <a href="http://www.amd.com/">AMD</a> with hosting donated
> > + by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>
> 
> "developers".
> 
> Also, the FSF has rather restrictive linking rules, so I don't think the
> patch can include the link to AMD's site (the link to INRIA should be
> fine).
> 
> Since we can't give AMD a link, we could at least list them first.
> Perhaps something like
> 
> <dd>AMD has generously donated two bi-quad core machines with the
> latest Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processor and 16GB of RAM
> to the <a href="wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm project</a>
> for use by free software developers.  Hosting is donated
> by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>

I have no objection to the change.

Laurent

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Sebastian Pop]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> Also, the FSF has rather restrictive linking rules, so I don't think the
> patch can include the link to AMD's site (the link to INRIA should be
> fine).
>
> Since we can't give AMD a link, we could at least list them first.
> Perhaps something like
>
> <dd>AMD has generously donated two bi-quad core machines with the
> latest Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processor and 16GB of RAM
> to the <a href="wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm project</a>
> for use by free software developers.  Hosting is donated
> by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>
>

We would like to have the name of the department that provided these
machines in the announce.  Is the following wording acceptable?

<dd>AMD Developer Central has generously donated two bi-quad core
machines with the latest AMD Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processors
and 16GB of RAM to the <a href="wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm
project</a> for use by free software developers.  Hosting is donated
by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>


Thanks,
Sebastian Pop
-- 
AMD - GNU Tools

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Joe Buck]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:15:09PM -0500, Sebastian Pop wrote:
> We would like to have the name of the department that provided these
> machines in the announce.  Is the following wording acceptable?
> 
> <dd>AMD Developer Central has generously donated two bi-quad core
> machines with the latest AMD Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processors
> and 16GB of RAM to the <a href="wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm
> project</a> for use by free software developers.  Hosting is donated
> by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>

Fine with me.  If it's OK with you Gerald, I guess just apply it.

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Fri, 23 May 2008, Sebastian Pop wrote:
> <dd>AMD Developer Central has generously donated two bi-quad core
> machines with the latest AMD Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processors
> and 16GB of RAM to the <a href="wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm
> project</a> for use by free software developers.  Hosting is donated
> by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>

This looks good, please go ahead, let's just remove "generously".

(Not because the donation is not generous, but many other parties
have been doing donations as well, of code, people and infrastructure,
and we want to keep the acknowledgements simple and consistent.)

Ah, and pleaes make the link to the Wiki an absolute one.  We also
have an instance of the web page, but not the Wiki, running on the
www.gnu.org server and there may be further mirrors.

Thanks,
Gerald

Re: GCC Compile Farm News: two new bi-quad core machines available

[Sebastian Pop]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008, Sebastian Pop wrote:
>> <dd>AMD Developer Central has generously donated two bi-quad core
>> machines with the latest AMD Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processors
>> and 16GB of RAM to the <a href="wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm
>> project</a> for use by free software developers.  Hosting is donated
>> by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>
>
> This looks good, please go ahead, let's just remove "generously".
>
> (Not because the donation is not generous, but many other parties
> have been doing donations as well, of code, people and infrastructure,
> and we want to keep the acknowledgements simple and consistent.)
>
> Ah, and pleaes make the link to the Wiki an absolute one.  We also
> have an instance of the web page, but not the Wiki, running on the
> www.gnu.org server and there may be further mirrors.

Here is what I committed:

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 <dl class="news">

+<dt>May 22, 2008</dt>
+<dd>AMD Developer Central has donated two bi-quad core machines with
+the latest AMD Opteron 8354 "Barcelona B3" processors and 16GB of RAM
+to the <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm">GCC Compile Farm
+project</a> for use by free software developers.  Hosting is donated
+by <a href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/">INRIA Saclay</a>.</dd>
+
 <dt>May 19, 2008</dt>
 <dd><a href="gcc-4.2/">GCC 4.2.4</a> has been released.</dd>


-- 
Sebastian Pop
AMD - GNU Tools