From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm? Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 01:50:13 +0100 Message-ID: <871rtsakoq.fsf@nckx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ia80q-0000EJ-B6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:50:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ia80k-0001MR-UE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:50:24 -0500 Received: from tobias.gr ([2001:470:7405::1]:55294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ia80h-0001Em-J5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:50:22 -0500 List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Guix Devel Cc: Jonathan Brielmaier , dftxbs3e --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Fellow Guix, The Guix sysadmins are considering buying shiny hardware for the ci.guix.gnu.org build farm, and it would be awesome if that included our first POWER9 machine(s)! However, few (if any) Guixers have any hands-on experience with this architecture, let alone buying and installing whole systems. Some remember a bad experience with a prominent vendor, and it would appear that they're not alone[0]. There's also some concern that getting these machines up and running will take significant effort. So please, share your expertise and experience in this area! Ideally, we need someone to volunteer to (help) set up any new POWER9 boxes and later take care of them when needed. It would certainly help justify the multi-thousand-euro bill. Kind regards, T G-R PS: For the shorter term, I've applied for an 8-core POWER9 LE instance (with 16 GiB of RAM) for Guix at OSUOSL[1]. Assuming that it's accepted, it should be available within a week. [0]: https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/23/RaptorCS-Blackbird-a-horror-story.html, but read https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/10/RaptorCS-redemption.html as well :-) [1]: https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEfo+u0AlEeO9y5k0W2Imw8BjFSTwFAl3fGcUACgkQ2Imw8BjF STw9Dg/9F1fsYFEyTqRC6HlkFeDhF4CvzvkwM31T/r33kLyfnNQxkmHe/B8CYVWV gLeoiGc+j8aBZWPnhmXFlaX82AnaSBEhu1V25njxDnzah1C6v/XSuAwdnk/MiPxn 5L/t1NgpaN29cO70NbxbrgJVdeb0O2CKCUB/VnlG2syKr2k6PLV1g1l/FvJ0Pyqn AMJ2Awsrxilh10CfKX0h3yTNKJ+TBBoTXgbSWHklUjilozElrhHCETH1uuGSe6b0 wgi/fcD4ctWITbwHMr5mafbFWv5U2Cysn61NgqdGQ+NJSBwCRcwV0DsMeZhDiOy3 rJ1YNaKOYZObSwQ8JoZys/ZiIfoISsrxpIRFSsXsjIxo1QgdG0LPPsT/oZtcMZiY vNnN+u15JeRsD6EYxLMcnKL6R4frsPGMTu7kcB1GGqcgGb5h4SVT3XQ/sV5/Wsy3 DCJ+OySXH5I/62stvN9gggL43sD63+p8AO1WtqyguHK5zyN876yzzf3jxc/LB1lv ej47FoASF5FxshlkQSmZXx5j+DcGcq5z3/BqOqo5gzsA9S0leRnRm2tzPRNih5iI fGs0KNKpIs3lvnT/FByhPZo6YeTL5PbWgs21z7yGe/hSRP/d6ti5Qci6bttkFf6t iPCNd15KJSdqKaVXT7tFfWbB7kol9vvNu9A2U+5+9B1gxfovqkw= =AEde -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--