In an effort to redefine the meaning of “performance”, we turn them into a performance cluster (where slower is better).
As Boris Zbarsky said,
If the hardware is so fast that, say, the Date.now() resolution (or whatever perl module we use) is insufficient to accurately time the tests, then we have a problem.
This follows up to the Mac Mini cluster we built out a couple weeks back. QA will now have a pool of “desktop class” machines running Windows XP and Ubuntu.
On a technical note, these ten machines are ColoBlade C10 PC Blade from www.colomachine.com, a unique blade-like chassis solution that takes up 8u of space for 10 1u machines. However, unlike a traditional blade system, power and ethernet are all seperate per “blade” as you can see below.
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Sweet! Where is the PS2 cluster?
A i see the money is well spent
/me runs away