myglc2 <[email protected]> writes: >>>> The bayfront hardware described here ... >>>> >>>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/news/growing-our-build-farm.html >>>> >>>> ... seems weak to me. Is there a plan to scale it up and make it redundant? >>> >>> It will be a lot more powerful than the current Hydra system. As for >>> specific plans, I'll let those administering the system chime in. >> >> That machine is super powerful… > > Well, I disagree. A 2010 motherboard with 2 x 2011 CPUs (16 core at > 1.6GHz) is weak compared to modern servers.
The machine is sufficiently powerful for what it should do. It just doesn’t do that yet, because it crashes. Bayfront is *not* the build farm, it’s just the front-end of that build farm. > As you have experienced here, the learning/deployment costs and hassle > associated with each new type of server often dwarfs other costs. The > best way to minimize this is to minimize the number of types of servers > you own. The servers I’m preparing to add to the build farm once I’m back to the office are all of the same type. There are dozens of them. > At this point it makes sense to abandon the Vikings motherboard and > choose a popular, mainstream, current x86_64 motherboard. Since AMD has > not been a competitive server vendor for the last ~8 years this means, > practically speaking, picking a popular intel-based motherboard. There is a group of sysadmins in contact with Vikings and taking care of the build farm. I’d rather keep the discussions about how to move forward with our servers there. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
