On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Roman Leshchinskiy
Hi all,
we, the DPH team, are at the moment in the very unfortunate situation of not having a proper machine for running our benchmarks on. Could a kind soul maybe give us (i.e., me) access to a quadcore or 2xquadcore x86 Linux or OS X machine? I only need to build ghc on it and run small benchmarks which never take more than a couple of minutes, maybe once every couple of days or so. We do need to use all cores, though, so no other CPU-intensive processes can be running during benchmarking. This is only for a week or two, until we get our own machine. We would be eternally grateful and won't forget you when DPH takes over the world.
Another possibility is using the Amazon EC2 functionality and rent a high-CPU instance (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#instance) for as long as you need. An extra large high-CPU instance costs $0.80 per hour (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing), is an 8-core machine, you only pay for the time used and it runs any kind of Linux you want (there are dozens of already configured instances with different configurations, it's also possible to configure your own). I've been using it for a few months and have no complaints.
Roman
Best regards, Daniel Yokomizo