Hello everyone,
Through the Works on Arm initiative [0], packet.com and arm.com have provided a bare metal aarch64 server for usage with the Python CI system.
Specs: 32 Physical Cores @ 3.3 GHz (1 x Ampere eMag), 128 GB of DDR4 ECC RAM, 480 GB SSD and Dual Port Mellanox NIC (2 × 10Gbps w/ LACP)
The server is running CentOS 8, and I have created four VM's each one with 8 vCores, 32GB of ram and 50GB of hdd space. The VM's are running Fedora rawhide, Fedora stable, RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 respectively.
I've already set up the workers and sent a PR for deploying them to the buildbot master: https://github.com/python/buildmaster-config/pull/169/files
All the new builders are added to the unstable list for the time being, as there haven't been any arm 64 buildbots so far, so I would like to test how things go first.
[0] https://www.worksonarm.com/
-- Regards,
Charalampos Stratakis Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat