Jane Street has a spare server we would like to donate to the postgres community. We originally planed to use it for one of our database clusters and it matches exactly what we use in production at the moment.
Rough specs:
CPU: 8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
MEM: 48GB
The server will probably be most interesting for the disks in it. That is where we spend the largest amount of time optimizing (for sequential scan speed in particular):
22x600GB disks in a Raid6+0 (Raid0 of 2x 10disk raid 6 arrays) + 2 spare disks. Overall size 8.7 TB in that configuration.
Is this something the community would find useful? If so, who is the right person to talk to about shipping/delivery?
