Greetings,
We've taken advantage of the quiet summer months to perform some
much needed maintenance on our server infrastructure. Below is a
short list of what has been done.
New dev/git.eclipse.org servers
We've replaced our 5-node 2-cpu Itanium2 cluster with 2 nodes of
8-core AMD Opteron servers. 6 additional CPU cores will help
speed up requests, and increased RAM from 8G per node to 48G and
32G will help improve cache hits and reduce load on storage
devices.
Cisco CSS load-balancing devices (donated at EclipseCon 2009)
allowed us to gradually and transparently switch to the new
servers. We still have a few odds-and-ends to tie up, but the
added performance and capacity is online now.
Many thanks to Intel for the new servers that liberated the AMD
machines, and Google for the massive amounts of RAM.
New Hudson instance
As Matt has already communicated, Hudson has graduated from
the 'experimental' stage is now fully supported by Eclipse
Webmasters. For more information, please see Matt's recent post
to this list:
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-committers/msg00825.html
Many thanks to IBM for the new x3550 servers, packed with 36G
of RAM and fast disk arrays.
Upgraded Build server
For those who prefer to build without Hudson, the OS on
build.eclipse.org has been upgraded to the latest SuSE Linux
Entreprise Server 11 SP1.
Many thanks to Novell for the free licenses for SLES.
What's next
Updated versions of Bugzilla, ViewVC and Forums are
planned for the near future. We will advise ahead of time if
there are any planned outages.
If you have any comments or questions, please don't hesitate to
contact either Matt or I at webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx.
Thanks,
Denis
|