Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation
On 6/22/13 8:19 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On 21 June 2013 20:03, Jim Nasby j...@nasby.net wrote: Who can be point of contact from the community to arrange shipping, etc? Do they need to be shipped? Can we just leave them where they are and arrange access and power charges to be passed to SPI? Sounds like it would be cheaper and easier to leave them where they are and they won't get damaged in transit then. Of course, may not be possible. Sorry for the late reply, just saw this. Actually, we have the exact opposite problem... someone higher up the food chain than I am is strongly opposed to us hosting a server for the community in any of our data centers. We actually can pay for hosting somewhere if that's an issue. BTW, I also missed Mark's reply to this... I'll get in touch with him about shipping. -- Jim Nasby, Lead Data Architect (512) 569-9461 (primary) (512) 579-9024 (backup) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] hardware donation
The server is already turned off and in our nyc office (I'm based in the ldn one). But I'm pretty sure its a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: On 7/10/13 12:53 PM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: The server will probably be most interesting for the disks in it. That is where we spend the largest amount of time optimizing (for sequential scan speed in particular): 22x600GB disks in a Raid6+0 (Raid0 of 2x 10disk raid 6 arrays) + 2 spare disks. Overall size 8.7 TB in that configuration. What is the RAID controller used in the server? That doesn't impact the donation, I'm just trying to fit this one into my goals for finding useful community performance testing equipment. There are a good number of systems floating around the community with HP controllers--I have even one myself now--but we could use more LSI Logic and Adaptec based systems. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services, and 24x7 Support www.2ndQuadrant.com
Re: [HACKERS] hardware donation
On 7/10/13 12:53 PM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: The server will probably be most interesting for the disks in it. That is where we spend the largest amount of time optimizing (for sequential scan speed in particular): 22x600GB disks in a Raid6+0 (Raid0 of 2x 10disk raid 6 arrays) + 2 spare disks. Overall size 8.7 TB in that configuration. What is the RAID controller used in the server? That doesn't impact the donation, I'm just trying to fit this one into my goals for finding useful community performance testing equipment. There are a good number of systems floating around the community with HP controllers--I have even one myself now--but we could use more LSI Logic and Adaptec based systems. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services, and 24x7 Support www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
[HACKERS] hardware donation
Jane Street has a spare server we would like to donate to the postgres community. We originally planed to use it for one of our database clusters and it matches exactly what we use in production at the moment. Rough specs: CPU: 8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz MEM: 48GB The server will probably be most interesting for the disks in it. That is where we spend the largest amount of time optimizing (for sequential scan speed in particular): 22x600GB disks in a Raid6+0 (Raid0 of 2x 10disk raid 6 arrays) + 2 spare disks. Overall size 8.7 TB in that configuration. Is this something the community would find useful? If so, who is the right person to talk to about shipping/delivery? Cheers, Bene
Re: [HACKERS] hardware donation
On 07/10/2013 09:53 AM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: Jane Street has a spare server we would like to donate to the postgres community. We originally planed to use it for one of our database clusters and it matches exactly what we use in production at the moment. Rough specs: CPU: 8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz MEM: 48GB The server will probably be most interesting for the disks in it. That is where we spend the largest amount of time optimizing (for sequential scan speed in particular): 22x600GB disks in a Raid6+0 (Raid0 of 2x 10disk raid 6 arrays) + 2 spare disks. Overall size 8.7 TB in that configuration. Is this something the community would find useful? If so, who is the right person to talk to about shipping/delivery? Mark, we can use this in the performance farm, no? I know I could use it for testing ... -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] hardware donation
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: On 07/10/2013 09:53 AM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: Jane Street has a spare server we would like to donate to the postgres community. We originally planed to use it for one of our database clusters and it matches exactly what we use in production at the moment. Rough specs: CPU: 8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz MEM: 48GB The server will probably be most interesting for the disks in it. That is where we spend the largest amount of time optimizing (for sequential scan speed in particular): 22x600GB disks in a Raid6+0 (Raid0 of 2x 10disk raid 6 arrays) + 2 spare disks. Overall size 8.7 TB in that configuration. Is this something the community would find useful? If so, who is the right person to talk to about shipping/delivery? Mark, we can use this in the performance farm, no? I know I could use it for testing ... Yes, we certainly can. I can be the contact for shipping/delivery. Thanks! Regards, Mark -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation
On 21 June 2013 20:03, Jim Nasby j...@nasby.net wrote: Who can be point of contact from the community to arrange shipping, etc? Do they need to be shipped? Can we just leave them where they are and arrange access and power charges to be passed to SPI? Sounds like it would be cheaper and easier to leave them where they are and they won't get damaged in transit then. Of course, may not be possible. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
[HACKERS] Hardware donation
We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the community. There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either 192G or 96G. I know that folks already have access to machines with a lot of cores, but I haven't seen reports of large memory machines. CPU details vary but we're only looking at 20ish cores (though AFAIK they're all 4 socket servers if that matters). Local drives are nothing fancy (though some might possibly be SSD). -- Jim Nasby, Lead Data Architect (512) 569-9461 (primary) (512) 579-9024 (backup) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Jim Nasby jna...@enova.com wrote: We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the community. There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either 192G or 96G. I know that folks already have access to machines with a lot of cores, but I haven't seen reports of large memory machines. CPU details vary but we're only looking at 20ish cores (though AFAIK they're all 4 socket servers if that matters). Local drives are nothing fancy (though some might possibly be SSD). Woot! -- Regards, Atri l'apprenant -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation
I stand corrected... we don't have a 512G server available. We do have plenty of 192G and 96G servers though if 2 of those would be of use. Sorry for the noise. On 6/21/13 11:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the community. There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either 192G or 96G. I know that folks already have access to machines with a lot of cores, but I haven't seen reports of large memory machines. CPU details vary but we're only looking at 20ish cores (though AFAIK they're all 4 socket servers if that matters). Local drives are nothing fancy (though some might possibly be SSD). -- Jim Nasby, Lead Data Architect (512) 569-9461 (primary) (512) 579-9024 (backup) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation
On 06/21/2013 09:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the community. There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either 192G or 96G. I know that folks already have access to machines with a lot of cores, but I haven't seen reports of large memory machines. CPU details vary but we're only looking at 20ish cores (though AFAIK they're all 4 socket servers if that matters). Local drives are nothing fancy (though some might possibly be SSD). I'm sure we could use these for the performance test farm. If we need to replace some of the drives, the community has money for that. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation
On 06/21/2013 09:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the community. There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either 192G or 96G. I know that folks already have access to machines with a lot of cores, but I haven't seen reports of large memory machines. CPU details vary but we're only looking at 20ish cores (though AFAIK they're all 4 socket servers if that matters). Local drives are nothing fancy (though some might possibly be SSD). A couple 192G machines to put in the performance lab would be nice, especially if they have SSD. JD -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ 509-416-6579 PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development High Availability, Oracle Conversion, Postgres-XC, @cmdpromptinc For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. - W.B. Yeats -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation
On 6/21/13 1:45 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: On 06/21/2013 09:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the community. There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either 192G or 96G. I know that folks already have access to machines with a lot of cores, but I haven't seen reports of large memory machines. CPU details vary but we're only looking at 20ish cores (though AFAIK they're all 4 socket servers if that matters). Local drives are nothing fancy (though some might possibly be SSD). I'm sure we could use these for the performance test farm. If we need to replace some of the drives, the community has money for that. We might actually have some spare SSDs floating around; I'm checking. We're also thinking we might be able to get at least one of these up to 256G by swapping memory around. Am I correct that the most valuable thing to the community the large memory size? Who can be point of contact from the community to arrange shipping, etc? -- Jim C. Nasby, Data Architect j...@nasby.net 512.569.9461 (cell) http://jim.nasby.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Jim Nasby j...@nasby.net wrote: On 6/21/13 1:45 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: On 06/21/2013 09:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the community. There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either 192G or 96G. I know that folks already have access to machines with a lot of cores, but I haven't seen reports of large memory machines. CPU details vary but we're only looking at 20ish cores (though AFAIK they're all 4 socket servers if that matters). Local drives are nothing fancy (though some might possibly be SSD). I'm sure we could use these for the performance test farm. If we need to replace some of the drives, the community has money for that. We might actually have some spare SSDs floating around; I'm checking. We're also thinking we might be able to get at least one of these up to 256G by swapping memory around. Am I correct that the most valuable thing to the community the large memory size? Yeah, I believe it's memory and storage. Who can be point of contact from the community to arrange shipping, etc? I can be. Regards, Mark -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation
Who can be point of contact from the community to arrange shipping, etc? I can be. And I'll handle the tax credit once the servers are received. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
