Rationale

This crowdsourcing project aims to source components for four new AMD64 (x86-64) build servers to help digest our BuildIt! queues. Currently, there are only two (albeit very powerful) available build servers for our amd64 jobs, we aim to deploy four more to enable more build jobs to run in parallel.

Of course, our BuildIt! infrastructure will benefit from either a job server or better use of containers and cgroups. However, in any case, more build servers means more redundancy and better overall performance.

Budget

We would like to source the following components:

• Processors: 4 * AMD Ryzen 7 5700X - 800 * 4 = CNY 3,200
• Motherboards: Gigabyte B450M AORUS Elite - 408 * 4 = CNY 1,632
• Memory: GLOWAY 32GiB DDR4 @ 2666MHz - 285.44 * 12 = CNY 3,425.28
• Cooling: Phanteks Solar S4 - 76.5 * 4 = CNY 306
• Power Supplies: Super Flower Bronze King 450 (450W) - 259 * 4 = CNY 1,036
• Cases: SAMA Xiaozhuque M-ATX Case - CNY 96

Totals: CNY 9,695.28

Donations

Friends of the community have donated the following to help with this crowdsourcing project:

• SSDs: 4 * Intel 750 800GB
• Cases:
  • 1 * Great Wall K15A (ATX)
  • 1 * Huntkey GX760R (ATX)
  • 1 * Unnamed (ATX)

Timeline

Shortly after the completion of this crowdsourcing campaign, the new AMD64 build servers will go online and will be used for maintaining AOSC OS for AMD64 (x86-64).

Participants

• Fearyncess "Lain" Yang [email protected], purchase coordinator.
• Mingcong Bai [email protected], host.