I am thrilled to see this! Huge thanks to INFRA team who made this possible and deployed / integrated all new machines into the existing CI infrastructure and everybody involved in this effort.
The nodes were donated under 3-years NetApp Targeted Sponsorship Regards From: Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 16:51 To: dev <dev@cassandra.apache.org> Subject: Huge NetApp donation of hardware for ci-cassandra EXTERNAL EMAIL - USE CAUTION when clicking links or attachments Under a ASF targeted sponsorship, NetApp (Instaclustr) has been very generous with the community and donated ten beefy (AMD EPYC 9454P Genoa 48-Core, 256G ram) servers to be used with our ci-cassandra.apache.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/ci-cassandra.apache.org__;!!Nhn8V6BzJA!S3-tKEF5DdokFjl9-qqfr1ucr_LQBULNbLujZO_hVDi-8cnH4zXEp-qkIBU1knCwpkNsUK91NtXibL7f6Q$> infrastructure. On each server we fit 6 jenkins executors, increasing our ci-cassandra.a.o executor count by 42 ! (60 new, minus 18 old executors from Instaclustr now removed). This raises our executor count from 98 to 140, and means NetApp's donation is currently running 30% of the project's CI resources ! This is a big deal for the project, adding both stability and improved throughput of CI for the community. https://github.com/apache/cassandra-builds/blob/trunk/ASF-jenkins-agents.md<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/apache/cassandra-builds/blob/trunk/ASF-jenkins-agents.md__;!!Nhn8V6BzJA!S3-tKEF5DdokFjl9-qqfr1ucr_LQBULNbLujZO_hVDi-8cnH4zXEp-qkIBU1knCwpkNsUK91NtUb7-O8Bw$> A very big thank you to NetApp, and to all our contributors employed there to help make this happen.
