funding request

funding-request (text/plain), 2.73 KB, created by Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) on 2016-05-01 02:28:44 UTC

Gentoo Foundation Equipment Funding Request

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Summary: One-line summary of your request
  Reimbursement for additional parts for a aarch64 developer box

Requesters: Names and nicks of people involved in this request. At least one
of them must be a manager. If the foundation cannot directly purchase the
request, the first requester will receive access to funding.
  prometheanfire, steev

Deadline (mandatory): Day Month Year. Request must be 6 weeks in advance.
  01 Jan 2017

Priority: Urgent, High, Medium or Low (select one)
  Low

Amount requested: Submitted in your local currency.
  device:     $360.98 
  tax:          $0.00
  shipping:     $0.00
  total:      $360.98 (USD)

Funding disbursement: Will the foundation directly purchase the items, or must
the funds be given to a requester? If they must be given to a requester, state
why.
  Foundation can purchase it directly, although I don't mind doing it myself

Vendors:

Provide vendors name and itemised quotes.

Itemized expense list:
  Item: Samsung 850 PRO 2.5" 512GB SATA III
  Vendor: NEWEGG

  Item: Wintec Server Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3L SDRAM ECC Unbuffered
  Vendor: NEWEGG

Justification: Provide any available information, conference purpose and
goals.
  This would be to add to a compute node to an existing Openstack cluster.  Once
  added it's resources could then be given out on demand as build/test boxes.

  At the current time aarch64 development is done via chroots on steev's box
  and possibly a couple of other people who have boxes.  This would convert that
  box so that access could be given out more freely.

Supporting information: Put any additional relevant things here.  Put the URL
of the conference.
  Device: Samsung 850 Pro
  URL: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8216/samsung-ssd-850-pro-128gb-256gb-1tb-review-enter-the-3d-era
  Buy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147361

  This provides close to DC level hardware for running virtualization loads.
  End users would also have access to network block storage if needed.

  Device: Wintec Server Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3L SDRAM ECC Unbuffered
  URL: http://www.upcindex.com/800953187205
  Buy http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161734

  We need this ram for the following reasons
  - It's a matched set of 16G (max the board can take)
  - It's ECC
  - It's low voltage (1.35V)
  - It's the same speed as the ram that comes with the board

  I'm not sure how well the board itself can take diferent speeds of RAM but I
  do not think it can take normal voltage or non-ecc RAM.