Preview Of The Massive New Open-Source, Linux Test Farm

[Michael]

Found another two completed systems I forgot about when moving... Looks like will be able to hit 32. Could do 36 if I had few more sticks of RAM and cases/PSUs. After that, would be concerned about all of this running off one circuit.

[Michael]

dude, that looks sweet! but maybe some cable management is in order?

That's a project for the wife this weekend now that most of the systems are up... 30th and final (for now) system being added tomorrow once another case and mobo arrives.

[Michael]

Full details are coming out on Tuesday then sometime in the next ~2 weeks or so the result data will start being out publicly (still working out a new public UI for result viewing/analysis, building up more results as some systems are just online a few days, etc).

[darkbasic]

Yes, right now using Radeon R7 260X for energy efficient RadeonSI testing. But is not on a per-commit basis but on a daily basis --given the number of commits spanning the projects.

Great, I will renew my Premium subscription as soon as the new test farm will go online

[belal1]

cable management?

dude, that looks sweet! but maybe some cable management is in order?

[Michael]

Wouldn't a Kaveri APU be less than half the power usage of a cpu + 260x though? 115W TDP + whatever the cpu takes.

I have two Kaveris in the farm too.

[curaga]

Wouldn't a Kaveri APU be less than half the power usage of a cpu + 260x though? 115W TDP + whatever the cpu takes.

[Michael]

Thanks Michael, this is what I was waiting for. Just a couple of questions:
1) Will you test a radeonsi card in your mesa per-commit testing?
2) Will you test a radeonsi card in your llvm per-commit testing?
3) Will you test a radeonsi card in your linux per-commit testing?

Please tell me the answer is yes and I will flood your office with beer

Yes, right now using Radeon R7 260X for energy efficient RadeonSI testing. But is not on a per-commit basis but on a daily basis --given the number of commits spanning the projects.

[darkbasic]

Thanks Michael, this is what I was waiting for. Just a couple of questions:
1) Will you test a radeonsi card in your mesa per-commit testing?
2) Will you test a radeonsi card in your llvm per-commit testing?
3) Will you test a radeonsi card in your linux per-commit testing?

Please tell me the answer is yes and I will flood your office with beer

[xeekei]

Likely not enough interest to justify adding BSD trackers at this point... Besides running out of system hardware now.

But the Phoronix Test Suite / Phoromatic software will run on BSDs for others wanting to do such tests.

FreeBSD is quite popular, at least in the forums. Maybe it doesn't generate enough clicks, only you would know. However, BSD users seem to dislike Phoronix benchmarks even more than Linux users. Anectodal, of course.