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List:       qubes-users
Subject:    [qubes-users] Qubes OS hardware costs
From:       Frédéric Pierret <frederic.pierret () qubes-os ! org>
Date:       2022-04-10 10:49:15
Message-ID: 25d24f3f-ac60-d29d-e4ed-6c4fedb0ad04 () qubes-os ! org
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Dear all,

I would like to share with you all the list of hardware that I have allocated for the \
Qubes OS Project's infrastructure: continuous integration, daily and weekly builds, \
and reproducible builds.

# CI/CD runners (all Qubes OS repositories)
HP DL360 Gen8:
   - Operating system: Debian
   - 2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 @ 2.60GHz
   - 128GB ECC RDIMM DDR3
   - 8 * 146GB HDD (SAS)

# CI/CD runners (Weekly ISO builds and Gentoo repositories (build and serve))
# Reproducible builds runners (see https://beta.tests.reproducible-builds.org/)
# Remark: only allocated at half of the global resources; the other half is my work \
machine. DELL PowerEdge R730:
   - Operating system: Qubes OS
   - 2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
   - 128GB ECC LDIMM DDR4
   - 8 * 300GB HDD (SAS)
   - 8 * 256GB SSD

# CI/CD runner for next generation Qubes builder
Custom Computer:
   - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
   - 16 GB Non-ECC DIMM DDR3
   - 2 * 256GB SSD

# openQA runners
HP DL360 Gen8:
   - Operating system: openSUSE
   - 2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 @ 2.60GHz
   - 128GB ECC RDIMM DDR3
   - 8 * 146GB SAS HDD

# openQA runners
HP DL360 Gen7:
   - 2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz
   - 64GB ECC RDIMM DDR3
   - 8 * 146GB SAS HDD

# Reproducible builds snapshot.notset.fr service (key for rebuilding Debian)
HP DL380e Gen8:
   - Operating system: openSUSE
   - 2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2430L v2 @ 2.40GHz
   - 32GB ECC RDIMM DDR3
   - 8 * 4TB HDD (SATA)

This is hardware I've paid for out of my own pocket over the past four years and that \
I run at home in a controlled environment. I've recently finished optimizing the \
on-demand startup and auto-shutdown of the GitLab and openQA machines.

All of this was and continues to be a non-negligible cost (several thousand euros \
over the years) for me in terms of energy and hardware. As this is refurbished \
hardware, from time to time I need to replace some drives and failing memory modules. \
To give you an idea, as of today and since the middle of January 2022, all of this \
hardware (including auxiliary networking and firewall hardware) has consumed 2023 KWh \
(according to my watt-meter and with a daily average rate of ~20-25 KWh).

If any of you could possibly be financial or hardware sponsors, I would greatly \
appreciate your generosity and support. Please don't hesitate to contact me or Marek \
if you can help with this. We already have some machines in the cloud that were \
generously offered by the Qubes OS community. (Marek can provide details about the \
hardware.) In general, renting similar machine specs in the cloud as what I can run \
at home is very expensive, and we cannot afford that. This is why I prefer to invest \
in hardware that we control, especially when part of it is used to deliver content \
like the Qubes OS weekly ISO builds.

Best regards,
Frédéric

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