Add a press release: Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD
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# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/Makefile,v 1.43 2005/09/19 20:18:28 hrs Exp $
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# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/Makefile,v 1.44 2005/11/05 13:10:53 ceri Exp $
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.if exists(../Makefile.conf)
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DOCS+= press-rel-8.sgml
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
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<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/press-rel-9.sgml,v 1.0 2005/12/26 01:50:00 somebody Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD">
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<!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../includes.navabout.sgml"> %navincludes;
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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<!ENTITY % newsincludes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %newsincludes;
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]>
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<html>
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&header;
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<!--
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<img src="../gifs/news.jpg" align="right" border="0" alt="FreeBSD News">
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-->
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<p></p>
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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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<br><br>
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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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&footer;
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</body>
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</html>
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
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<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/pressreleases.sgml,v 1.10 2005/10/04 19:43:48 hrs Exp $">
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/pressreleases.sgml,v 1.11 2005/11/05 13:10:53 ceri Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Press Releases">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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<dl>
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<dt>November 25, 2005</dt>
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<dd>
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<a href="press-rel-9.html">Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD</a>
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<p></p>
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<dd>
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<dt>November 4, 2005</dt>
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<dd>
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<a href="press-rel-8.html">FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.0</a>
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