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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:28:11 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: David Olien <David.Olien@lsi.com>
Cc: Richard Hardiman <Richard.Hardiman@lsi.com>, Chris Greiveldinger
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Subject: Re: summary of talk about my desktop machine
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Hi David,

Let me reply to this somewhat.

First, the role of IT there in Beaverton, and elsewhere, is to serve
you and your needs.  S/he needs to find more bandwidth if that's what
you need.  If they're aren't clear on what their role is, I can start a
dialog with them ~:^)

That said, I don't think you regularly need too terribly much.  The
idea of the workstations I'm getting for you guys is to have a
development machine under your fingertips that makes you productive,
efficient and happy with your tools.  It's not meant to replace clients
and other things down here that are used for testing.

Obviously, if you do a build on a machine in B-town, you need to get
that new binary a bit closer to the hardware it's running on.  We can
set up, or you can do it yourselves, some fast and easy rsync based
commands to handle everything.  You would still use the clients here in
Campbell to run tests on that need high bandwidth (network proximity)
to the filers.  If you're using them as NFS servers for your filers,
you can do that as well.

This is just the first of the workstations, one or two will be ordered
each week until somebody screams 'stop'.  One of the reasons they aren't
all being done at once is I don't want an avalanche of machines on
Rich.  There are several other reasons as well.

Let me know if that sounds sane.

BTW, you should have received some monitors.  Those can be shared out
amongst you folks up there as needed.  There are more of those coming as
well. I've been ordering 2 per workstation.

Cheers,

a


On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:50:00 -0700 "Hardiman, Richard"
<Richard.Hardiman@lsi.com> wrote:

> Hey Andy,
> Here is the email from David Olien.
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Olien, David
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:33 PM
> To: Hardiman, Richard; Ariyamannil, Jobi
> Cc: Greiveldinger, Chris
> Subject: summary of talk about my desktop machine
> 
> Richard, Jobi,
> 
> I just wanted to summarize what we talked about through messaging and
> voice mail.
> 
> Richard has acquired a desktop machine for me, as I had originally
> requested.  It's a nice machine, 4 cores and 8 gigabytes or ram.
> Much more substantial than the desktops we're using at Campbell at
> the moment (mine is 1 core, 1 gigabytes of ram).  It's difficult to
> do other work on these older desktops when you have a compile going
> on.
> 
> However, the network bandwidth into the Beaverton site here is 8
> megabit.  I've already had complaints from the network administrator
> complaining about my bandwidth usage (I downloaded from mightydog
> the .mp4 files that are  video tapes of the technical presentations
> on Bobcat... they came to about 15 gigabytes total).  So I think
> doing our work in  a way that involves lots of transferring of data
> between Beaverton and Campbell is probably not workable.  When we
> have a Cougar on-site here in Beaverton to mirror the content of
> mightydog, we can reconsider this.  But that'll take time and budget
> money.
> 
> So in the mean time, we're already short of desktop machines in
> Campbell.  Our new employees here in Beaverton, Terence and Brent,
> are sharing desktops with Chris and David.  I'd like to take this new
> machine added to the pool of desktops that we're already using there
> in Campbell.  This new machine will be much more shareable than our
> current desktops.  So I think two people could share it.  We can
> figure out who uses which machine once this new machine is available.
> 
> Sound OK to both of you?
> 
> Dave
> 
