Jeffrey Altman wrote:
Tom has proposed that OpenAFS submit a hardware grant request to Sun.
It is believed that we can obtain up to $100,000 in 1U X86 boxes that we
could use for a test infrastructure. Sun may be tempted to provide this
equipment if OpenAFS was to state a desire to target OpenSolaris as a
preferred operating system for OpenAFS deployments.
Please let us know if you believe this is a good or bad idea.
I believe this is a good idea - Recently Notre Dame's CTO was
at their corporate facility and mentioned our testing of
OpenAFS on Solaris 10. Sun was interested in the amount of
work being done with OpenAFS - using ZFS - especially using their
x4500 (Thumper) servers. I would expect to find them quite willing
to provide both hardware and software resources.
Rich
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Rich Sudlow
University of Notre Dame
Center for Research Computing
128 Information Technology Center
PO Box 539
Notre Dame, IN 46556-0539
(574) 631-7258 office phone
(574) 631-9283 office fax
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