Re: hardware donation

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> 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 production at the moment.
>>
>> Rough specs:
>> CPU: 8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5570  @ 2.93GHz
>> MEM: 48GB
>>
>> 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. Overall size 8.7 TB in that configuration.
>>
>> Is this something the community would find useful?  If so, who is the right
>> person to talk to about shipping/delivery?
>
> Mark, we can use this in the performance farm, no?
>
> I know I could use it for testing ...

Yes, we certainly can.  I can be the contact for shipping/delivery.  Thanks!

Regards,
Mark