David Edelsohn schrieb:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Pierre-Yves David
> <pierre-yves.da...@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/10/2014 10:17 AM, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>>>
>>> All: also, regarding appreciating IBM's machine donations, IBM
>>> people (IIRC, for example David E. and Bill S.) have at times
>>> expressed that they'd be helped by emails expressing how
>>> different FOSS projects and developers have benefited from that,
>>> presumably to show to the people paying the bills (...putting a
>>> tie on here...:)  to help defend those investments and
>>> incentivise future donations.
>>
>>
>> Where does such email should be sent to.
> 
> The public messages in the other thread have been helpful, i.e.,
> specific projects (GMP, Valgrind, GDB, etc.) expressing the benefit of
> access to these machines.
> 

In case you may need another example why the BigIron POWER in the compile
farm are a good thing, maybe this commit is of interrest to you:

https://github.com/kaffeemonster/zlib/commit/10b2cd8dd6bc204b2fa19c1f4e3e75a95e71b454

Such run-time performance tests need real hw.

> Thanks, David
> 

Greetings
        Jan

-- 
A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks,
"Can I join you?"

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