Seb35 wrote:
I'm from the French chapter and we need sometimes a lot of CPU power and/or a lot of memory for some projects. For now it happened two times:
- the partnership with the BnF where we need CPU and disk space (for image
and DjVu processing, we rent a server dedicated to that);
- the treatment of the videos of our GLAM meeting (split the videos and
OGV conversion, done on a personal computer with a lot of time).
So is it possible to use the toolserver in these cases? And/or ask for a particular use when important ressources are required? I didn't seen anything related to the ressources in the rules.
It's difficult to know what "a lot" of CPU power or memory is from your post. Toolserver accounts have account limits (https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Account_limits), so if you're staying within those limits, there's generally no problem. If you want to exceed those limits, you should talk to the Toolserver roots first (https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/System_administrators). There are places like /mnt/user-store that can be used for large media storage as well.
As always, the Toolserver resources that you use need to relate to Wikimedia in some way, but it sounds like both of your projects do. :-)
MZMcBride