Oversight Board/2010/Meeting Minutes-2010-01-22: Difference between revisions
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== Infrastructure == | == Infrastructure == | ||
* | * New server (replacement for solarsail, ASLO scalability cluster) | ||
'''Motion:''' Authorize Bernie to purchase a new server | This is a request to pre-approve the budget for a fast machine with 8 cores | ||
to run some of our primary services: wiki, trac, aslo, lists. These services | |||
are currently running on solarsail and sunjammer, both of which are | |||
insufficiently powerful to support the current growth in traffic. | |||
If we successfully obtain donated servers from the Wikimedia foundation (see below), | |||
we may keep going a while more without this expense. Ivan is also planning to | |||
purchase a new server for his personal use, which he'll make available on friendly | |||
terms as he has done for solarsail. | |||
'''Motion:''' Authorize Bernie to purchase a new server. The cost should not exceed US$ 3000. | |||
* Wikipedia servers | * Wikipedia servers | ||
'''Motion:''' Authorize Luke to ship some used hardware from the Wikipedia Foundation (12 servers) to various hosting sites. The cost should not exceed US$300. | As discussed in the latest [http://me.etin.gs/treehouse/treehouse.log.20100119_1559.html InfraTeam meeting], | ||
we will try to get 3 machines to RIT (pending approval on their side) and the rest to Boston and | |||
Washington DC. [[User:Lfaraone|Luke Faraone]] has a few contacts of organizations which would be able to rack the machines | |||
for us. | |||
These boxes are old and possibly not very reliable. They would make a good basis for | |||
clustering ASLO if we're careful to make every component of the cluster redundant and | |||
implement proper automatic takeover. [[User:Dfarning|David Farning]] and [[User:Alsroot|Aleksey Lim]] | |||
produced a cluster prototype which needs some more tuning and testing. | |||
Clustering ASLO is something that we could postpone by 1-2 years (at current growth rate) | |||
if we purchased a modern machine which would be 8-10 times faster than our current hardware. | |||
However, this project opens valuable collaboration opportunities with RIT and other partners. | |||
'''Motion:''' Authorize Luke to ship some used hardware from the Wikipedia Foundation | |||
(12 servers) to various hosting sites. The cost should not exceed US$300. | |||
== Trademark == | == Trademark == | ||