[cfarm-admins] Offer for Sparc machines

Baptiste Jonglez baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org
Sun Aug 5 13:22:40 CEST 2018


On 05-08-18, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> 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.

Ok, no worries!  Enjoy the cooler weather then :)

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
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> 
> --
> "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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