From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: Sun Server Location
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:19:09 -0700
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Simon,

> I'm not familiar with OSL. Do you mean OSDL?

Open Source Lab, in Corvalis, Oregon.  They're funded by Oregon State 
University, and host quite a number of other open source projects, 
including Gentoo, some Apache projects, portions of Debian, etc.  
Unrelated to OSDL except through collaboration on specific projects.

> I'd be interested in hosting it with full community access via a public
> booking system, managed via policies agreed on this list. Subject to
> more detailed info, it would be at a site with people to operate it on
> behalf of users.

Yep.   Mind you, I don't think that software exists for such scheduling, 
but if you want to write it I won't object to using it.  Warning, though; 
I claim the first month after racking to work on some PostgreSQL/Solaris 
bugs, and the server should run a permanent BuildFarm client.

> How much rackspace and how much power are we talking about?
> http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000/specifications.jsp#Environm
>ent That the right link?

Yes.

> Does it come with a StorEdge array also? The specs say it only supports
> 4 drives internally. What disks are we talking?

Four.  There's some limit on the donation, and since Sun doesn't 
manufacture their own disks, the machines are disk-light.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco