Mac-Hardware for pre-merge testing

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Mac-Hardware for pre-merge testing

ChristianKuehnel opened this issue 4 years ago · 19 comments

Louis Dionne requested Mac-Hardware for pre-merge testing, details see email conversation on iwg@llvm.org

Answer 1 · 2021-04-26T15:04:13.000Z

I have spoken with Louis in the past about this and I know he could really use our support here. @ChristianKuehnel would it be possible for you to get a quote from MacStadium? I will work up pricing information for AWS. It would be nice if we could get a third vendor for price comparison. I am going to aim to get my information posted here by the end of this week. In order to help Louis I think it would be nice if we could get an email proposal sent to the Board within the next 10 - 14 business days. Any objections?

Answer 2 · 2021-04-26T15:10:45.000Z

A quick peak here shows AWS provides macOS on dedicated hardware only. We could get 12 cores with 32GB ram for ~$615/mo with a 1yr commitment. The price increases dramatically if we just pay for the unit hourly (almost $2/hr).

Answer 3 · 2021-04-26T15:28:47.000Z

Hi Mike, I'll work with Louis on picking some reasonable hardware and then try to get a quote for it. Best, Christian

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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 5:11 PM Mike Edwards ***@***.***> wrote: A quick peak here <https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/> shows AWS provides macOS on dedicated hardware only. We could get 12 cores with 32GB ram for ~$615/mo with a 1yr commitment. The price increases dramatically if we just pay for the unit hourly (almost $2/hr). — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#32 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEYJMCG3CNAIJGWGC7Y5VMTTKV7AZANCNFSM43SOF3DA> .

Answer 4 · 2021-04-26T15:33:17.000Z

I found two more pages with price information, looks similar to MacStadium https://www.macminivault.com/dedicated-sign-up/ https://www.macincloud.com/pages/dedicated.html

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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 5:28 PM Christian Kühnel ***@***.***> wrote: Hi Mike, I'll work with Louis on picking some reasonable hardware and then try to get a quote for it. Best, Christian On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 5:11 PM Mike Edwards ***@***.***> wrote: > A quick peak here <https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/> shows > AWS provides macOS on dedicated hardware only. We could get 12 cores with > 32GB ram for ~$615/mo with a 1yr commitment. The price increases > dramatically if we just pay for the unit hourly (almost $2/hr). > > — > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#32 (comment)>, or > unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEYJMCG3CNAIJGWGC7Y5VMTTKV7AZANCNFSM43SOF3DA> > . >

Answer 5 · 2021-04-27T14:01:32.000Z

Concerning hardware selection:

The more cores the better for compiling (as always). So I would not take any dual-core machines.
We probably want a mix of Intel (current fleet) and M1 machines (future architecture).

Just send requests for quotes to MacStadium, MacMiniVault and MacInCloud.

Answer 6 · 2021-04-27T15:20:51.000Z

What's going to be running on these resources? Is it a buildbot or some other CI system?

Answer 7 · 2021-04-27T15:31:41.000Z

pre-mege testing is running on Buildkite:
https://buildkite.com/llvm-project

Answer 8 · 2021-04-28T10:37:39.000Z

I created a proposal in a Google Doc. Not sharing it publicly as it contains pricing information:

Happy to give access to folks who want to get involved in the topic.

Answer 9 · 2021-05-06T00:50:49.000Z

Hi, there is a board meeting on Friday. Is this document ready for the board to review?

Answer 10 · 2021-05-06T07:22:11.000Z

Hi Tom, from my point of view yes, but also I'm biased towards improving pre-merge testing. We only heard feedback from one other person on the IWG so far. Best, Christian

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On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 2:51 AM Tom Stellard ***@***.***> wrote: Hi, there is a board meeting on Friday. Is this document ready for the board to review? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#32 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEYJMCGCRYNAOKTARWFHQPLTMHRXTANCNFSM43SOF3DA> .

Answer 11 · 2021-05-06T13:27:32.000Z

I agree with the MacMiniVault choice. Do you want to send the proposal to the board?

Answer 12 · 2021-05-06T13:56:24.000Z

Well, the formal question is: Do we want more people from the IWG to review/approve this proposal? So far we don't really have agreed if/how we want to decide such things... Best, Christian

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On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 3:27 PM Tom Stellard ***@***.***> wrote: I agree with the MacMiniVault choice. Do you want to send the proposal to the board? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#32 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEYJMCBMOCV2AU3YRZRQKADTMKKNTANCNFSM43SOF3DA> .

Answer 13 · 2021-05-06T15:23:59.000Z

I'd like the IWG to have a chance to meet once and discuss this live before we present to the Board. Tom, I think we should just let the Board know a proposal will be provided soon via email. We can ask the Board to approve via email, we should not have to wait until the June meeting to get this approved.

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-Mike On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 6:56 AM ChristianKuehnel ***@***.***> wrote:

Well, the formal question is: Do we want more people from the IWG to review/approve this proposal? So far we don't really have agreed if/how we want to decide such things... Best, Christian On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 3:27 PM Tom Stellard ***@***.***> wrote: > I agree with the MacMiniVault choice. Do you want to send the proposal to > the board? > > — > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#32 (comment)>, or > unsubscribe > < https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEYJMCBMOCV2AU3YRZRQKADTMKKNTANCNFSM43SOF3DA > > . > — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#32 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAJI65ILEIOMHLSJIMJ6QALTMKNZ5ANCNFSM43SOF3DA> .

Answer 14 · 2021-05-06T17:24:32.000Z

@sqlbyme Ok, that makes sense.

Answer 15 · 2021-08-24T15:51:12.000Z

Hi,

is this request still relevant? I've just set up 2 mac mini M1 and 1 mac mini x86 i5 (2012) for building LLVM and Spidermonkey. Still working on environment setting, but I'd like to contribute them to the LLVM test process.

Answer 16 · 2021-08-24T16:04:20.000Z

@lazyparser We have purchased the Mac resources and they are running in buildkite. If you have resources you want to contribute, please open a separate ticket so we can discuss.

Answer 17 · 2021-08-24T16:06:36.000Z

@lazyparser We have purchased the Mac resources and they are running in buildkite. If you have resources you want to contribute, please open a separate ticket so we can discuss.

Got it. Thanks. will do later.

Answer 18 · 2021-08-24T16:33:27.000Z

Also feel free to sync up with Louis Dionne on setting things up.

Answer 19 · 2021-08-25T09:28:34.000Z

Clsoing as the hardware is up and running