[cfarm-admins] Offer for Sparc machines

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Sun Aug 5 09:31:39 CEST 2018


Hi Baptiste,

Am 04.08.2018 um 11:31 schrieb Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org>:
> Did you have the opportunity to setup a machine for the farm?

Unfortunately not, due to the excessively hot weather I prolonged my vacation
by two weeks. I’ll be back on 13.8.

Sorry for the delay.


Best regards

  — Dago

> 
> Regards,
> Baptiste
> 
> On 21-07-18, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> Hi Baptiste,
>> 
>> Am 21.07.2018 um 00:03 schrieb Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org>:
>>> If you are able to provide a few dedicated machines for the GCC compile
>>> farm (let's say 2 or 3), and also provide support for them (updating the
>>> OS, installing new packages, etc), then this is really a great addition to
>>> the farm!
>> 
>> This should be possible.
>> 
>>> Regarding practical matters:
>>> 
>>> - we need direct SSH access to the machines.  It can be on ports different
>>> than 22, so you can use the same public IP address for all machines.
>>> 
>>> - we deploy users and their SSH keys using Ansible (via SSH as root).
>>> I expect it will work well on Solaris, but if you provide a first
>>> machine we can test it.
>>> 
>>> - we also use Ansible to automatically gather technical information, for
>>> displaying them on https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
>>> We also install packages through Ansible as much as possible, so that
>>> new machines automatically get all the packages previously requested by
>>> farm users.
>>> 
>>> - regarding storage, we need ideally at least 500 GB for /home on each
>>> machine: users tend to leave stuff behind.  If it's too difficult to do,
>>> you can put all storage for /home on a single machine, and mount it
>>> through NFS on all other machines.
>>> 
>>> Does that all sound good to you?
>> 
>> Yep, sounds good. Ansible works ok with some mninor tweaks, I use it myself for
>> some tasks. I am currently travelling, I’ll prepare a machine by end of July
>> so we can do some tests and see how it goes. I’ll keep you posted.
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>>  — Dago
>> 
>> --
>> "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something,
>> and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
>> 
> 
> 

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