Hi, FSF France has received in donation 9 Dell poweredge 1550 bi processor 1U machines with one 18GB SCSI disk and 1GB RAM, processors total 19.5 GHz distributed as follows:
- 3 bi pentium III 1.25 GHz - 6 bi pentium III 1.00 GHz The machines are about four years old, so of course there may be hardware problems in the coming years, but we might also be able to get cheap parts on the used market (or from other donations). An offer has been made for hosting those 9 1U machines in Paris provided low use of external bandwidth, so this would be useable for a GCC compile farm. FSF France has to say yes or no to the hosting offer by friday 12Aug2005 17:00 UTC (end of this week), if we do not set up some compile/compute-farm like project FSF France will allocate these machines to other tasks. FYI 31 other machines of this type were also donated and have been allocated to various projects. So I'm asking for project proposals, that is to say people that think that their volunteer time to work on these old machine (scripts, compiling, ... under the limit of minimal external bandwidth use) is of some significant benefit to some free software project. Project participants would get ssh access to the machines at the beginning of september 2005. The machines are currently installed with ubuntu 5.04, but this could change if needed (and expertise provided). Feel free to pass this offer to projects that are related to GCC, like free software compiled with GCC that come with a useful test suite and where volunteer are willing to help. Discussions are welcome on this list. Sincerely, Laurent PS: sorry for the short notice, I wasn't aware until recently that there was a time limit on the hosting offer. We might be able to get another hosting offer, but I prefer not count on it.
