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 with AMD to acquire these systems. When we got the systems
from AMD they agreed to provide them for the use of the GBuild
project and were never in a corporate owner's asset list. I
provided AMD with the ship to address (which I think was David
Blevins) so continuing to use them for the Geronimo is totally in
line with what the original intention was.
I think the machines would be fine except that they are now about 4-
years old and had some issues that Jason struggled with so they may
not be highly dependable. As far as Lights Out Management I suspect
that the this means that we would likely plug them into a remote
power management unit so they can be power cycled remotely and not
require any manual intervention. I don't know if these machines
would qualify for that kind of support. We'll need to investigate
that.
Is someone tracking them down and do we have a current inventory on
what they are?
Just a note on these AMD machines, butters and bebe. They're still in
the US Simula (now Exist) colo and unless we have another place to put
them they'll eventually be shipped off to Hong Kong where the new
Exist colo is. They're still up and running, just have no public IPs.
The two Dell U1 servers (stan and kyle) I own are sitting in my
closet and I'd be happy to hand them over to the ASF. I offered them
before, but the lack of power in the cage was really the issue. Happy
to throw them back into the pot if we can get that worked out.
-David
