I'm not sure if this idea will go down well, but I'll mute it anyway.
I know William has switched off machines (t2.math for example), as he does not have the power/cooling for them. That seems a real shame for that machine to sit and collect dust, when it could be used.
Apart from "hawk", I have some reasonably quick x86 boxes I could put Linux on and make available for Sage build slaves and general development. The issue for me personally is paying the electric costs. My wife will moan at the noise from a server, but moan even more about the cost of running them.
So would William consider paying the electric costs for those that make servers available, and are not covered by their institution? Would it be a waste of money, or good use of money?
"hawk", my OpenSolaris box uses very little power, and I want to keep it on 24/7, so that's not an issue for me.
But I also have a couple of IBM servers, which are reasonably powerful. I'm swapping bits between them, but soon expect to have something with a pair of quad core 3.16 GHz Xeons and 48 GB RAM. I suspect they will use more power than I can justify spending from my own pocket.
Here in the UK, except in hot periods of Summer, it's possible to run a server in my garage without air-con, so whilst I don't have the costs of air-conditioning, the servers themselves use power.
Just a thought. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
