Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation

2013-08-23 Thread Jim Nasby
On 6/22/13 8:19 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On 21 June 2013 20:03, Jim Nasby wrote: Who can be point of contact from the community to arrange shipping, etc? Do they need to be shipped? Can we just leave them where they are and arrange access and power charges to be passed to SPI? Sounds like it w

Re: [HACKERS] hardware donation

2013-07-18 Thread Benedikt Grundmann
The server is already turned off and in our nyc office (I'm based in the ldn one). But I'm pretty sure its a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > On 7/10/13 12:53 PM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: > >> The server will probably be most interesting for the dis

Re: [HACKERS] hardware donation

2013-07-18 Thread Greg Smith
On 7/10/13 12:53 PM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: The server will probably be most interesting for the disks in it. That is where we spend the largest amount of time optimizing (for sequential scan speed in particular): 22x600GB disks in a Raid6+0 (Raid0 of 2x 10disk raid 6 arrays) + 2 spare disks.

Re: [HACKERS] hardware donation

2013-07-10 Thread Mark Wong
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 07/10/2013 09:53 AM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: >> Jane Street has a spare server we would like to donate to the postgres >> community. We originally planed to use it for one of our database clusters >> and it matches exactly what we use in

Re: [HACKERS] hardware donation

2013-07-10 Thread Josh Berkus
On 07/10/2013 09:53 AM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: > Jane Street has a spare server we would like to donate to the postgres > community. We originally planed to use it for one of our database clusters > and it matches exactly what we use in production at the moment. > > Rough specs: > CPU: 8x Inte

[HACKERS] hardware donation

2013-07-10 Thread Benedikt Grundmann
Jane Street has a spare server we would like to donate to the postgres community. We originally planed to use it for one of our database clusters and it matches exactly what we use in production at the moment. Rough specs: CPU: 8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz MEM: 48GB The ser

Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation

2013-06-22 Thread Simon Riggs
On 21 June 2013 20:03, Jim Nasby wrote: > Who can be point of contact from the community to arrange shipping, etc? Do they need to be shipped? Can we just leave them where they are and arrange access and power charges to be passed to SPI? Sounds like it would be cheaper and easier to leave them

Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation

2013-06-21 Thread Josh Berkus
>> Who can be point of contact from the community to arrange shipping, etc? > > I can be. And I'll handle the tax credit once the servers are received. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make c

Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation

2013-06-21 Thread Mark Wong
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Jim Nasby wrote: > On 6/21/13 1:45 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> >> On 06/21/2013 09:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: >>> >>> We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to >>> donate 2 of them to the community. >>> >>> There's nothing terribly spectacu

Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation

2013-06-21 Thread Jim Nasby
On 6/21/13 1:45 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: On 06/21/2013 09:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the community. There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We have one 512G server available a

Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation

2013-06-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 06/21/2013 09:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the community. There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either 192G or 9

Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation

2013-06-21 Thread Josh Berkus
On 06/21/2013 09:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: > We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to > donate 2 of them to the community. > > There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for > memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either > 1

Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation

2013-06-21 Thread Jim Nasby
I stand corrected... we don't have a 512G server available. We do have plenty of 192G and 96G servers though if 2 of those would be of use. Sorry for the noise. On 6/21/13 11:48 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the

Re: [HACKERS] Hardware donation

2013-06-21 Thread Atri Sharma
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Jim Nasby wrote: > We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to > donate 2 of them to the community. > > There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We > have one 512G server available and the other would be

[HACKERS] Hardware donation

2013-06-21 Thread Jim Nasby
We've got some recently decommissioned servers and Enova is willing to donate 2 of them to the community. There's nothing terribly spectacular about the servers except for memory. We have one 512G server available and the other would be either 192G or 96G. I know that folks already have access