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<p><b>The FreeBSD Foundation received a donation of a blade system from |
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Hewlett-Packard for use as a third-party software build cluster. |
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This 20-node HP BladeSystem cluster triples the speed of the build |
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process for i386 packages.</b></p> |
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<p><i>"With this generous donation from HP, we are able to continuously |
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produce up-to-date packages from more than 13000 ports of third-party |
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software available in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, at about three |
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times the rate of the previous hardware cluster,"</i> said Kris Kennaway, |
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member of the FreeBSD Port Management Team.</p> |
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<p><i>"This directly benefits the users of FreeBSD through the rapid |
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availability of new and updated software packages, and through the |
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increased testing and QA of FreeBSD that the new hardware allows."</i></p> |
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<p><i>"We at HP recognize the important role of FreeBSD in the Internet's |
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global network infrastructure, and we are happy that the HP |
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BladeSystem cluster can contribute to the on-going success of the |
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FreeBSD Foundation,"</i> said Mark Potter, vice president of the |
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Hewlett-Packard BladeSystem division.</p> |
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<p><i>"They're just standard i386 systems, architecturally, with a very |
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nice ssh- and serial-based management server,"</i> said Kennaway, who |
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maintains the FreeBSD Ports cluster.</p> |
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<p>Kennaway said FreeBSD has a few dozen other machines scattered |
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around the globe for package builds. A big concentration of sparc |
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machines hosted by Hiroki Sato in Japan include some large |
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multiprocessor e4500's (10, 12 and 14 CPUs) that have been extremely |
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valuable for SMP testing. Also, a couple of machines hosted by ISC, |
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an amd64 hosted by Scott Long, three i386 machines at Yahoo! Korea, |
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and sometimes Kennaway's own machines in Canada are used for the |
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official package builds.</p> |
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<p>The HP BladeSystem cluster is hosted at the Yahoo! datacenter in |
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the San Francisco Bay area. In addition to Kennaway, Paul Saab |
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and Peter Wemm from the FreeBSD project, and John Cagle from HP |
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helped with blade system setup.</p> |
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<h3>About The FreeBSD Project</h3> |
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<p>The FreeBSD Project provides an up-to-date and scalable modern operating |
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system that offers high-performance, security, and advanced networking for |
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personal workstations, Internet servers, routers, and firewalls. The |
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FreeBSD packages collection includes popular software like Apache Web |
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Server, Gnome, KDE, X.org X11 Window System, Python, Mozilla, and over |
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13,000 software suites. FreeBSD can be found on the Internet at |
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/">http://www.FreeBSD.org</a>.</p> |
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<h3>More Information:</h3> |
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<p>FreeBSD Ports webpage<br> |
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/</a> |
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FreeBSD Package building logs and errors webpage<br> |
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<a href="http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/">http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/</a></p> |
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