Machine Donation / GCC SC

Machine Donation / GCC SC

[Laurent GUERBY]

Oops, forgot to put the overseers in CC. 

The deadline for decision for hosting has been extended to Friday
12Aug2005, if we say yes, machines will be online at their target
location end of august / beginning of september.

I volunteer to help doing things (GCC or otherwise), but
my availability is at best 8pm-11pm french time and week-ends
since from work I won't do free software stuff.

Sincerely,

Laurent

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Cc: loic@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Richard M. Stallman": [laurent@guerby.net: Machine
Donation / GCC SC]
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:58:49 +0200

Hi again Ian,

I don't know if Loic gave you some more information, but to sum up what
I know:

- machines available will be 3 bi pentium III 1.26 GHz and 6 bi pentium
III 1.0 Ghz (plus or minus some machine depending on other projects),
all with 1GB RAM and one 16GB SCSI disk (and two more scsi hot plug bays
available - these are poweredge 1550 Dell machines, refurbushed are
selling in the $600-1000 range), currently all installed with ubuntu
5.04 in server mode (this can be changed if needed).

- hosting offer is mainly rack space in Paris and we should use as
little bandwidth as possible, people are available to power cycle
machine but all admin is for selected volunteers through ssh with root
access.

- we have no guarantee about duration, but these people are free
software friendly, and if necessary we have backup a offer in Marseille.
The only problem (I wasn't aware of that one month ago) is that the
current offer needs to be decided by tuesday (09Aug).

Since I'm not 100% sure we'll find enough volunteers to set up
the GCC compile farm project (I'll ask the gcc list since the SC
decided it should be handled by volunteers), do you have
specific projects that could use those machines? Feel
free to list them.

Sincerely,

Laurent

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 14:28 +0200, laurent@guerby.net wrote:
> The location is Paris, my understanding that we were offered
> rackspace as long as we take only a very small amount of bandwidth,
> so ok for compile farm-like setup.
> 
> Loic Dachary (in cc) zill be able to provide you with more details.
> 
> Laurent
> 
> Selon Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>:
> 
> > Hi Laurent, I'm one of the administrators of gcc.gnu.org.  This is
> > actually the first I've heard of this generous offer; I guess people
> > haven't been forwarding it along.
> >
> > Can you give me a few more details on what you are offering?  In
> > particular, I see that you mention rack space below; does that mean
> > that you are offering some sort of network hosting for these systems?
> > How long would that last, and what type of access would we have to
> > them?  Where would they be located physically?
> >
> > Let's see if we can pull this together in a way that makes sense.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Ian
> >

GCC Compile Farm

[Laurent GUERBY]

Hi,

After various episodes, the machines are now online.

On the 9 machines, one under netbsd is not networked yet (I have to
finish the setup on site) and one machine disk apparently died (will
check and buy a new one ASAP), that leaves seven machines running ubuntu
5.04.

The machines are probably unable to reboot on their own because
their BIOS battery is dead, and factory setting BIOS requires
someone to press a key (I'll try to replace them if this becomes an
issue).

I have no special experience administering a farm of machine for
developpers, my plan for now is to have local accounts (with
the same id accross machines for when we want NFS) for GCC developpers
that want access to one or more machines.

Any suggestion and/or help welcomed :).

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

Laurent

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:25 +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Oops, forgot to put the overseers in CC. 
> 
> The deadline for decision for hosting has been extended to Friday
> 12Aug2005, if we say yes, machines will be online at their target
> location end of august / beginning of september.
> 
> I volunteer to help doing things (GCC or otherwise), but
> my availability is at best 8pm-11pm french time and week-ends
> since from work I won't do free software stuff.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Laurent
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
> To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
> Cc: loic@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: "Richard M. Stallman": [laurent@guerby.net: Machine
> Donation / GCC SC]
> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:58:49 +0200
> 
> Hi again Ian,
> 
> I don't know if Loic gave you some more information, but to sum up what
> I know:
> 
> - machines available will be 3 bi pentium III 1.26 GHz and 6 bi pentium
> III 1.0 Ghz (plus or minus some machine depending on other projects),
> all with 1GB RAM and one 16GB SCSI disk (and two more scsi hot plug bays
> available - these are poweredge 1550 Dell machines, refurbushed are
> selling in the $600-1000 range), currently all installed with ubuntu
> 5.04 in server mode (this can be changed if needed).
> 
> - hosting offer is mainly rack space in Paris and we should use as
> little bandwidth as possible, people are available to power cycle
> machine but all admin is for selected volunteers through ssh with root
> access.
> 
> - we have no guarantee about duration, but these people are free
> software friendly, and if necessary we have backup a offer in Marseille.
> The only problem (I wasn't aware of that one month ago) is that the
> current offer needs to be decided by tuesday (09Aug).
> 
> Since I'm not 100% sure we'll find enough volunteers to set up
> the GCC compile farm project (I'll ask the gcc list since the SC
> decided it should be handled by volunteers), do you have
> specific projects that could use those machines? Feel
> free to list them.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Laurent
> 
> On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 14:28 +0200, laurent@guerby.net wrote:
> > The location is Paris, my understanding that we were offered
> > rackspace as long as we take only a very small amount of bandwidth,
> > so ok for compile farm-like setup.
> > 
> > Loic Dachary (in cc) zill be able to provide you with more details.
> > 
> > Laurent
> > 
> > Selon Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>:
> > 
> > > Hi Laurent, I'm one of the administrators of gcc.gnu.org.  This is
> > > actually the first I've heard of this generous offer; I guess people
> > > haven't been forwarding it along.
> > >
> > > Can you give me a few more details on what you are offering?  In
> > > particular, I see that you mention rack space below; does that mean
> > > that you are offering some sort of network hosting for these systems?
> > > How long would that last, and what type of access would we have to
> > > them?  Where would they be located physically?
> > >
> > > Let's see if we can pull this together in a way that makes sense.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Ian
> > >