Jason Dillon wrote:
On May 13, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Joe Bohn wrote:
Right I was running 2 very beefy machines manually in a dedicated
fashion with no automation. If we want something to share, multiple
VM images, and multiple concurrent tests then it would need to be a
bit more robust than what I was using. So I was planning to ask for 4
multi-core machines (need to do some research on CPU capacity) and 3-4
GB RAM each. I'll include that we could get by with just 2 machines
for a time while we work out the automation/sharing issues.
I sent a note asking for some clarification on what they are looking
for in a proposal and an example (if available). I'd like for
whatever we request to be in line with most of their other systems in
terms of OS level/version, VM software, etc... so that we can avoid
the "one off" issue they list while still getting a system that can
support our testing needs.
What happened to the AMD systems which were heating up my apartment last
year? 2 4x (dual core) 16g machines with nice RAID cards, etc... ?
I'm not sure where those are at but I'm sure we can track them down.
Another bit of criteria that I learned for ASF hosted machines is that
they must be rack-mountable and have "lights-out management"
LOMs. Is that the case for your apartment heating machines?
We'll probably want more something like 8-core machines (or possibly
4-core). I was hoping for 3-4 GB per core ... but we might have to
settle for closer to 2 as Donald suggested. I'm not really sure what
the limits on RAM are for these types of machines.
Joe
