Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-16 Thread Joe Bohn
Matt Hogstrom wrote: I did a quick search on the web for what it would take to build two systems. Here is the initial SWAG. SuperMicro CSE-825S2-R700LPV U2 Rackmountable eATX Case (700W PSU, Silver)$750 x 2 = $1500 Sony DRU190A 20X DVD Rewritable Drive - 20x DVD±R

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-16 Thread David Blevins
On May 15, 2008, at 8:31 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: Well, you can't donate to 'Geronimo' per se only to the ASF. I wasn't involved directly in this, but I believe the heritage for the machines is AMD - IBM. IBM people used the machines for their geronimo work (including GBuild). I worked

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-16 Thread Jason Dillon
eh, might as well pull the kids out now... not sure what to do with them, but eh, at the least sell them on ebay and buy me a beer. :-P --jason On May 17, 2008, at 1:47 AM, David Blevins wrote: On May 15, 2008, at 8:31 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: Well, you can't donate to 'Geronimo' per se

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-16 Thread Joe Bohn
Jason Dillon wrote: eh, might as well pull the kids out now... not sure what to do with them, but eh, at the least sell them on ebay and buy me a beer. :-P --jason On May 17, 2008, at 1:47 AM, David Blevins wrote: On May 15, 2008, at 8:31 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: Well, you can't donate

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-15 Thread Kevan Miller
On May 14, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Jason Dillon wrote: On May 14, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Kevan Miller wrote: On May 13, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Jason Dillon wrote: What happened to the AMD systems which were heating up my apartment last year? 2 4x (dual core) 16g machines with nice RAID cards, etc... ?

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-15 Thread Joe Bohn
Jason Warner wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Joe Bohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jay D. McHugh wrote: I'll volunteer to help out on supporting the machines. Thanks Jay! I'd be willing to help support the machines as well, if more people

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Hogstrom
On May 14, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Jason Dillon wrote: On May 14, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Kevan Miller wrote: On May 13, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Jason Dillon wrote: What happened to the AMD systems which were heating up my apartment last year? 2 4x (dual core) 16g machines with nice RAID cards, etc... ?

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Well, you can't donate to 'Geronimo' per se only to the ASF. I wasn't involved directly in this, but I believe the heritage for the machines is AMD - IBM. IBM people used the machines for their geronimo work (including GBuild). I worked with AMD to acquire these systems. When we got

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Hogstrom
I did a quick search on the web for what it would take to build two systems. Here is the initial SWAG. SuperMicro CSE-825S2-R700LPV U2 Rackmountable eATX Case (700W PSU, Silver) $750 x 2 = $1500 Sony DRU190A 20X DVD Rewritable Drive - 20x DVD±R $40 x 2 =80

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-15 Thread Kevan Miller
On May 15, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: On May 14, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Jason Dillon wrote: On May 14, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Kevan Miller wrote: On May 13, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Jason Dillon wrote: What happened to the AMD systems which were heating up my apartment last year? 2 4x

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-15 Thread Kevan Miller
On May 15, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: Well, you can't donate to 'Geronimo' per se only to the ASF. I wasn't involved directly in this, but I believe the heritage for the machines is AMD - IBM. IBM people used the machines for their geronimo work (including GBuild). I

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-15 Thread Kevan Miller
On May 15, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: I did a quick search on the web for what it would take to build two systems. Here is the initial SWAG. SuperMicro CSE-825S2-R700LPV U2 Rackmountable eATX Case (700W PSU, Silver) $750 x 2 = $1500 Sony DRU190A 20X DVD Rewritable Drive -

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-14 Thread Jason Warner
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Joe Bohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jay D. McHugh wrote: I'll volunteer to help out on supporting the machines. Thanks Jay! I'd be willing to help support the machines as well, if more people are needed, assuming you don't need to be a sysadmin superstar

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-14 Thread Jason Dillon
On May 14, 2008, at 2:29 AM, Joe Bohn wrote: I'm not sure where those are at but I'm sure we can track them down. Another bit of criteria that I learned for ASF hosted machines is that they must be rack-mountable and have lights-out management LOMs. Is that the case for your apartment

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-14 Thread Jason Dillon
On May 14, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Kevan Miller wrote: On May 13, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Jason Dillon wrote: What happened to the AMD systems which were heating up my apartment last year? 2 4x (dual core) 16g machines with nice RAID cards, etc... ? Those machines are owned by IBM. IBM would be happy

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-13 Thread Kevan Miller
On May 12, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Joe Bohn wrote: All, We have discussed in the past the idea of getting some ASF hosted machines that we can use to run and share TCK test results for Geronimo. With more folks coming on board running TCK tests this seems to be getting more and more

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-13 Thread Joe Bohn
Kevan Miller wrote: On May 12, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Joe Bohn wrote: All, We have discussed in the past the idea of getting some ASF hosted machines that we can use to run and share TCK test results for Geronimo. With more folks coming on board running TCK tests this seems to be getting more

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-13 Thread Jason Dillon
On May 13, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Joe Bohn wrote: Right I was running 2 very beefy machines manually in a dedicated fashion with no automation. If we want something to share, multiple VM images, and multiple concurrent tests then it would need to be a bit more robust than what I was using. So

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-13 Thread Jay D. McHugh
I'll volunteer to help out on supporting the machines. I haven't been able to to much useful TCK work since my most powerful available system is a laptop that gets restarted twice a day. Jay Joe Bohn wrote: All, We have discussed in the past the idea of getting some ASF hosted machines

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-13 Thread Donald Woods
If we want to run multiple images on a machine, then I'd up the requirements to 2 or 4 way AMD/Intel Quad core with a minimum of 8GB RAM for 4 cores and 16GB for 8 cores. That way, you can have 2 or 3 images running through the buckets at full force, while having another image there for

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-13 Thread Kevan Miller
On May 13, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Jay D. McHugh wrote: I'll volunteer to help out on supporting the machines. I haven't been able to to much useful TCK work since my most powerful available system is a laptop that gets restarted twice a day. Heh. That sounds less than ideal. Jay, I'm pretty

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-13 Thread Joe Bohn
Jason Dillon wrote: On May 13, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Joe Bohn wrote: Right I was running 2 very beefy machines manually in a dedicated fashion with no automation. If we want something to share, multiple VM images, and multiple concurrent tests then it would need to be a bit more robust than

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-13 Thread Kevan Miller
On May 13, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Jason Dillon wrote: On May 13, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Joe Bohn wrote: Right I was running 2 very beefy machines manually in a dedicated fashion with no automation. If we want something to share, multiple VM images, and multiple concurrent tests then it would

Re: ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-13 Thread Jay D. McHugh
Thanks, that would be great. Jay Kevan Miller wrote: On May 13, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Jay D. McHugh wrote: I'll volunteer to help out on supporting the machines. I haven't been able to to much useful TCK work since my most powerful available system is a laptop that gets restarted twice a day.

ASF hosted machines for TCK testing

2008-05-12 Thread Joe Bohn
All, We have discussed in the past the idea of getting some ASF hosted machines that we can use to run and share TCK test results for Geronimo. With more folks coming on board running TCK tests this seems to be getting more and more important. It would also be great if we could get some of