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Oversight Board/2010/Meeting Minutes-2010-01-22 (view source)
Revision as of 10:24, 20 January 2010
, 10:24, 20 January 2010→Infrastructure
== Infrastructure ==
== Infrastructure ==
* Replacement for Solarsail
* New server (replacement for solarsail, ASLO scalability cluster)
'''Motion:''' Authorize Bernie to purchase a new server to replace Solarsail. The cost should not exceed US$ ???.
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 ==