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 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 A very big thank you to NetApp, and to all our contributors employed there to help make this happen.
