Ok, thank you, I didn't find this page.
For the BnF project we needed in fact about one day of computation (most of the time was used by the disk accesses), but we thought it would be more (we optimized too by using SAX instead of DOM to read big XML files, it used too much memory with DOM too). For the video encoding to OGV (it's not me who done that), it was 4-5 hours for a single video but some time was used to swap (and there are 100 videos corresponding to the conferences).
Thank you for the response. Seb35
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:45:53 +0100, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
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