Pedro Melo wrote:
Hi,
I was at the YAPC::EU CPAN testers bofh in Lisbon, and discussed the
possibility of adding more uncommon hardware to the CPANT pool.
I had some difficulties subscribing to this list, but in the meantime I
asked around for hardware and I have now the following systems:
* a big 8U AIX RS6000 server: this is a enterprise class box, but was
given "as is";
* 3 sparcstations.
I have still pending a RS200, two other enterprise Suns, and possibly 2
alphas (one running True64 and the other OpenVMS).
Of course, that is on top of an old dual processor PII 500Mh server :)
that I plan to use to smoke test FreeBSD.
Regarding the RS6000, this was given as is, without cables, manuals and
software. I have a couple of friends at IBM Portugal, and I'll try to
get hold of that there.
I can host the sparcstations and the x86 but I will have problems
hosting the RS6000, it is a *big* server. Is there someone in Europe
that wants this one?
Next steps: I'll clean the x86 and one of the sparcs to get the ball
running. Which OS should I use with the spacstation? I think they have
to run old versions of Solaris (7 through 9, i think, still waiting
confirmation from a friend at Sun).
I have been running CPAN::Reporter::Smoker for a couple of days in a Sun
Blade 100 at 500MHz/512MB using OpenBSD-sparc64 and it can just barely
follow the rate of new CPAN uploads.
It seems that the faster SPARCstations had a 200MHz CPUs
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation) that is pretty low.
Probably, they would not be able to cope with the load, and besides
that, their 32 bit CPUs are incompatible with the current 64 bits SPARC
V9 used on any SPARC machine shipped over the last ten years.
So, getting a CPAN smoker running on those machines is not going to be
probably very useful or rewarding...
Go for the Alphas!!! ;-)
Cheers,
- Salva
