Hi there,

@aekoroglu, @oidoming, and myself recently joined the Hyperscale SIG on behalf of Intel. We'll be working on package maintenance of optimization work, but also supporting SIG-wide CI/CD automation. Towards both of those goals, Intel wants to make current (Ice Lake) and eventually next-gen hardware available to the SIG for building and testing packages. This ticket is to start that conversation, discuss that process, learn what requirements there are, and work through the process of adding new hardware. @bstinson also asked to be CC'd on this process.

Ideally, we'd like to plug in hardware we (Intel) host through some sort of openinfra framework. We were told that the hardware that currently supports the Hyperscale SIG is all at a RHEL-hosted datacenter. What kind of flexibility is there on adding outside-hosted hardware into the build environment?

If that flexibility is currently limited, we'd like to push for such capabilities going forward and are happy to work through that process. If this is supported already, what are the next steps toward such an integration? Right now we're happy to start small -- say, 1-3 additional Ice Lake machines.

Cheers and thanks for your time,
Kevin