New home for the perf.haskell.org builder wanted

[Ryan Trinkle]

OK, great!  Definitely happy to help in some other way if makes sense.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ryan, I saw your hosting offer, thanks a lot! I must have skipped the
> past suggesting haskell.org funds for a machine and only saw the
> hosting offer. But an existing unused machine is just fine.
>
> Richard, sounds great!. I should not work on in before Monday anyways.
> No other requirements necessary.
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
> Am Freitag, den 11.11.2016, 14:15 -0500 schrieb Richard Eisenberg:
> > I have an unused machine in my department. It currently has 6GB of
> > memory on it, but memory is cheap enough these days, so this could be
> > expanded if necessary. (Is this necessary?) We would slap a basic
> > Linux on it, give it a hostname (xxx.cs.brynmawr.edu), and then make
> > an account for you, Joachim, to ssh into. Are there other setup
> > requirements?
> >
> > It's Friday afternoon, so I'm unsure if we could get it done in the
> > next 24 hours, but I would imagine by early next week.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > > On Nov 11, 2016, at 1:57 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitne
> > > r.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > let me bump this request. http://perf.haskell.org/ghc has now
> > > stopped
> > > producing new results.
> > >
> > > It does not have to be a fancy server or anything like that; an
> > > unused
> > > office machine in some corner would do as well, it has done that so
> > > far. (I wonder if I should reactivate my T400s for that. Maybe a
> > > slow
> > > machine yields more precise measurements. But it is in Germany
> > > right
> > > now, so I won’t be able to do that before Christmas.)
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > > Joachim
> > >
> > >
> > > Am Montag, den 24.10.2016, 19:25 -0400 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> > > > although I have moved away from Karlsruhe three months ago, so
> > > > far it
> > > > is still my office PC driving
> > > > https://perf.haskell.org/ghc/
> > > >
> > > > But a new person is now using my desk and wants to use this
> > > > machine, so
> > > > I should really really move this away from there now.
> > > >
> > > > Sebastian Graf has been working on turning gipeda, the Frontend
> > > > perf.haskell.org, into a more general service open to open source
> > > > Haskell projects, and this is close, but not close enough to
> > > > simply
> > > > stop running the performance tests until he is good to go.
> > > >
> > > > He currently has a machine given from haskell.org to run this on,
> > > > but
> > > > it is a virtual machine and the measurements are too flaky for
> > > > real
> > > > use.
> > > >
> > > > So basically, I need a decent non-virtualized (or virtualized,
> > > > but
> > > > exclusive) machine to move my performance build runner to, as
> > > > quickly
> > > > as possible. The current specs are
> > > >  * 8 core Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
> > > >  * 16 GB RAM
> > > > but it does not matter too much, a slightly weaker machine would
> > > > be
> > > > able to keep up as well. I also do not necessarily need root
> > > > access
> > > > (but it would be beyond the point if the machine would do other
> > > > stuff
> > > > that incurs a heavy load).
> > > >
> > > > The same machine could then be used by Sebastian for his more
> > > > general
> > > > setup, once that is ready to go.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have something handy?
> > > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > > Joachim
> > > >
> > > >
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