[X2Go-Project] [X2Go-User] Sponsorship of X2Go macOS Client Development and of X2Go Linux on POWER Development

Matt Weatherford mbw at uw.edu
Fri Mar 31 19:11:11 CEST 2017



> On Mar 31, 2017, at 9:44 AM, Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> as previously announced, CFD.direct has decided to sponsor our macOS
> Client Development, and XCLOUD.me, has jumped right in and offered us a
> special rebate, so we can run two of their smallest instances for the
> price of one medium instance.
> This means that will be able to offer automated X2GoClient for macOS
> builds both for macOS 10.10 (these should work on 10.9 and 10.8 as well)
> as well as for macOS 10.12.
> The machines have been provisioned today, and Mihai will be setting them
> up over the course of the next few days.
> 
> Once he's done with that, we'll move on to supporting the POWER platform
> directly again (at present, some distributions grab our source and turn
> it into packages for their POWER flavor, but there's no official X2Go
> repository where you could get stable or nightly builds directly from us).
> 
> IBM and the Oregon State University's Open Source Lab have teamed up and
> are providing us with four POWER8 virtual machines (with the option to
> add more, should the need arise), manageable via an OpenStack WebGUI.
> Unlike the previous POWER8 virtual machine that we had, these new
> servers are going to be available for us for the foreseeable future.
> We intend to run at least two (one for Big-Endian, the other for
> Little-Endian) of those machines as Jenkins Build Slaves, just as the
> virtual macOS machines, so we will soon be able to provide automated
> builds for POWER.  The other two we currently intend to run as demo
> servers and for testing and bugsquashing, though we might repurpose them
> as Jenkins Build Slaves if it turns out that we need one per Endianess
> *and* packaging system (DEB vs. RPM).
> 
> There's one bug that's cropped up on POWER8 LE only, and we're already
> curious to learn what's causing it, so we're glad we finally have access
> to a test environment again.
> 
> Here is a quick overview over the sponsors mentioned above:
> 
> CFD Direct <https://cfd.direct> are the primary developers of
> OpenFOAM <https://openfoam.org>, the free, open source software
> for computational fluid dynamics.
> 
> XCLOUD.me <https://xcloud.me/> is a hosting company that specializes in
> providing virtual macOS cloud instances - all 100% legal, as the virtual
> machines run on top of real Apple hardware.
> 
> IBM are the original developers of the POWER systems used in midrange
> computing.  You can learn more about the Linux on POWER ecosystem here:
> <http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/>
> 
> Oregon State University's Open Source Lab (OSU/OSL) is a nonprofit
> organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.
> They offer various means of support to open source projects, one of them
> being free hosting on both Intel and POWER servers.
> To find out more about them, please visit their web site at
> <http://osuosl.org/>
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Stefan Baur
> X2Go Project/Community Manager
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