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 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