<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Szilárd Páll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:szilard.pall@cbr.su.se" target="_blank">szilard.pall@cbr.su.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I am not a big fan of SF exactly because I can't just wget it but have to go to their page and click. </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Google code doesn't have that problem. So that might be the best option. If we want to try that we need to decide that quickly so we can request an increased size limit. I don't know how long it takes them to grant it.</div>
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<div>All in all, I still favor torrent as the encouraged means of downloading + our own file server with capped uplink protection (which will make the torrent in just a few days if not hours have tons of seeders and Mbytes/s downloads speed.</div>
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<div>On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Roland Schulz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland@utk.edu" target="_blank">roland@utk.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>why don't we put all downloads on github (or any other OpenSource site (sourceforge, googlecode, ....)) and link to there from the download page? That would solve the problem very easily. </div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In the future we plan to provide source code, regression tests, benchmark data set, and possibly some binary packages as downloads for GROMACS users. For reasons discussed earlier, with the 4.6 release
the regression test suite and validation of GROMACS build/installation is becoming very important. A standardized benchmark set and pre-compiled binaries would also be a great benefit for many.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">However, there is one important aspect we need to consider. The source + regression tests suite is already close to 150 Mb which is non-negligible from the point of view of server load. The benchmark
set will probably be split up in several packages, some of them gigabytes in size; binaries for the half 6-8 most important platforms will also potentially contribute to the server traffic.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">A <span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);line-height:15px">deluge</span> of large downloads hitting and possibly crippling our servers after the next major/minor release(s) is a very realistic scenario for
which we need to be prepared. After discussing with with some developers (thanks Berk & Sander for the tips) the is the suggestion we came up with:</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* We should use a separate, dedicated machine/VM to host downloads (are we keeping the current ftp server for this purpose?).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* The number of connections and downwind bandwidth for the various GROMACS downloads should be capped to protect the server.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* We should provide and *encourage* the use of torrents for downloads, especially the large ones like the benchmark test suite.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">+ We could consider having mirrors for some (larger) or all downloads. However, for this we would need someone to help out with (read: "donate") storage space + bandwidth!<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">+ We could consider commercial storage solutions *if* there are suggestions for relatively cheap and efficient ones.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">+: would be good to get feedback before 4.6.0.</div>
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