IntegriCloud have been operating a policy of providing Free-of-Charge a VPS for Free and Open-Source development projects. A few months ago, I requested one such VPS to work on the ppc64 stages, with the intention of testing/building a few more ppc64 profiles (musl, hardened, etc) and doing some Arch Testing. Unfortunately, the available disk space on the VPS platform is rather limited for doing catalyst-style builds, and after a conversation with the IntegriCloud folks, they have suggested it would be possible to set aside a dedicated box with more disk space for Gentoo to use. The offer on the table is for a 4-core, 16/32MB RAM, 128GB NVMe POWER9 box (subject to upgrade or further negotiation). I've been using a similar VPS allocation with ~30GB disk and have found it to be very performant. I've approached the other powerpc team members, and they seem to think this would be a useful option to have in addition to the existing boxes via OSUOSL. I have no particular preference personally who has ultimate control of the box, as it was suggested Infra would probably wish to take ownership, provided I could have SSH access retained, until such time as my own developer application is processed. If this proposal is deemed acceptable, I can exchange appropriate contact details in order to get this set up.
(In reply to Michael 'veremitz' Everitt from comment #0) > The offer on the table is for a 4-core, 16/32MB RAM, 128GB NVMe POWER9 box > (subject to upgrade or further negotiation). I've been using a similar VPS > allocation with ~30GB disk and have found it to be very performant. > Erm, thanks to dwfreed for spotting the deliberate typo! Of course that should be 16-32*GB* RAM and not 'MB'...
Ack from PPC64 team, maybe?! :) tia!
I mean, sure. We're not bottlenecked on hardware though. We're lacking man power.
ack would be nice to have a instance for the GkernelCI
approved to be re-talked after September for GkernelCI usage
