That's good to know, Kos. Is there any place I can find the actual usage (in terms of utilization / memory-cpu-disk usage) of these build machines ?
Based on the Amazon EC2 pricing (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/), I would like to determine which type of instances would be adequate, and how much yearly budget would be needed. Since ASF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, charitable organization, these donations would be tax deductible for U.S. Based individuals. (Plus for new AWS members, there is a free tier for 1 year.) Is there build infra in place that will allow these individually donated ec2 instances to be utilized ? - Milind --- Milind Bhandarkar Greenplum Labs, EMC (Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this email are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views of any organization, past or present, the author might be affiliated with.) On 8/2/11 11:39 AM, "Konstantin Boudnik" <[email protected]> wrote: >Milind. > >From about 30 boxes Y! gave to ASF at least (I believe there were more, >but at >least that much) 10 of them were used _exclusively_ as Hadoop build/test >machines (e.g. Hudson slaves) and a number of others (about 5 at least) >were >used for Hadoop deployment testing _exclusively_. So, I think the claim >above >doesn't reflect the real situation with hardware donation or perhaps is >missing some of the details ;). > >With that in mind I came across this article goo.gl/EVp5S and now I have a >bright idea! Shall the hardware donation be proportional to the proclaimed >market share (or installation base) of a particular commercial >distribution's >vendor? That'd be only fair I guess... Apache Hadoop is about 65% of the >installation and Y! brought in 30 machines. If a vendor A or C has say 30% >then may be they feel good by donating something like 15 boxes to the >cause? > >-- > Take care, > Konstantin (Cos) Boudnik > 2CAC 8312 4870 D885 8616 6115 220F 6980 1F27 E622 > > Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this email are those of the author, >and do > not necessarily represent the views of any company the author might be > affiliated with at the moment of writing. > > >On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:38PM, [email protected] wrote: >> A couple of questions for Nigel and Andrew: >> >> 1. What do you mean by "non-single-purpose machines" ? (I guess, >>machines >> they can use for non-Hadoop projects as well ?) >> >> 2. Do these machines have to be physical boxes or virtual machines be >>okay >> too ? (sudo on virtual machines would be easier to sell than on physical >> boxes.) >> >> 3. What's the process for donations ? >> >> - milind >> >> --- >> Milind Bhandarkar >> Greenplum Labs, >> EMC >> >> >> >> >> On 8/2/11 8:07 AM, "Andrew Bayer" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >FWIW, the ASF Infra guys aren't that keen on more machines they won't >>have >> >physical control of. There may be some wiggle room on that, but they'll >> >definitely need sudo and they would much prefer non-single-purpose >> >machines. >> >Just a heads up from my talks with Infra lately. >> > >> >A. >> > >> >On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Nigel Daley <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Folks, >> >> >> >> Given the Hadoop build machines have been offline for a few day, this >> >>would >> >> be a good time to see if other companies can donate **access** to >>some >> >> build hardware to diversify our donors. Currently there are roughly >>30 >> >> machines donated by Yahoo! >> >> >> >> Ideally the hardware is: >> >> * hosted and OS managed by the donor, >> >> * publicly addressable on the internet, >> >> * running Ubuntu or CentOS, and >> >> * sudo access can be given to Apache's Jenkins admins so they can >>create >> >> accounts for committers as needed. >> >> >> >> Anyone? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Nige >> >> >> >
