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https://osuosl.org/
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [support.osuosl.org #23293] Hosting Request: EasyBuild &
HPCBIOS projects
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 13:53:20 +0200
From: Fotis Georgatos <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
CC: 00 _if_lost+found_call_here 00 _???????_???_ _???_?????_
<[email protected]>, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]>
Hi Emily,
It took some time to receive the reply from OSU but, this is excellent news!
I need to coordinate with Kenneth (cc'd) about if one or two accounts are ideal.
My guess is that having "easybuild" & "hpcbios" accounts as a starting point
is a good idea. Ken would operate the former and me the later one.
(we may use one of them for pre-production purposes, leave that point on us)
If you are scarce on space, 10GBs should cut it, in the first few weeks;
in case you can allocate extra, I think that 100GBs would be used well,
eventually.
As regards traffic, at this point there are about a dozen High Performance
Computing
sites that are ready to use this as their installation mechanism for
applications.
A VM/server with 1Gbps card, for aggregate traffic, should be more than enough.
Demand has the form of "spikes", when people install Open Source applications.
We are sysadmins ourselves, so we are considerate about resources consumption!
If practice shows that consumption is beyond initial expectations,
we will be ready to renegotiate the "correct" solution, given some early notice.
thank you for your interest,
Fotis - on behalf of a bunch of fellows
ps. bear with me as I will be on travel, over next couple of weeks.
On May 20, 2014, at 2:03 AM, Emily Dunham via RT wrote:
Fotis,
I apologize for the delay in getting back to this ticket -- We haven't been
reviewing new hosting requests very frequently, since our top priority is
maintaining excellent service to those projects who are already relying on our
hosting.
It sounds like your two projects might be a good fit for our FTP mirroring
infrastructure. How much storage do you anticipate expanding to over the next
year or so -- for example, how many versions of the ~1GB tarball will you want
to have available at one time?
Do you have an estimate of how many downloads per month it will get? Also,
would you prefer a single account to mirror both projects (if so, what
username?) or one FTP account each?
Thanks,
Emily Dunham
Student Systems Engineer, OSU Open Source Lab
On Fri May 09 13:50:32 2014, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I know that this sounds like an old story,
but the need is still valid for EasyBuild/HPCBIOS activity
so I was wondering if anybody had a look at it.
The whole request was about this:
** we both need a place to safely store re-distributable tarballs, for
our newcomer users **
** initially, we could start with one 1GB tar'd collection and then
extend as needed **
The whole thing is Open Source!
also, important:
- Can you switch the primary contact point away from my uni.lu address
and towards [email protected], which is likely to last longer?!
tia,
Fotis
On Feb 3, 2014, at 3:07 PM, Fotis Georgatos wrote:
Hi!
On Dec 5, 2013, at 8:20 PM, Lance Albertson via RT wrote:
Oh shoot, you already submitted it via the Supercell request form.
We'll
reply to you shortly about that.
do we have any updates?
EasyBuild/HPCBIOS project activities are visible over here:
https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/hpc_and_computational_science/
(slides to come up later this week, hopefully)
N.B.
I will be available on another email account by the end of this
month,
so it would be good to exchange some feedback to ensure
continuity...
tia,
Fotis
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