[sepia] new hardware

Hi all, The foundation has some money to spend on hardware. Given a budget of ~$200k, what would we buy? I see two main options: - More smithi-class machines. We would presumably take a closer look at the available machines to make a reasonable choice, since it's been a few years now... it might make sense to buy something a bit faster. I think ideally, though, they would go into the same machine pool/class, since that tends to lead to better overall utilization of the hardware. - Build machines. If we buy more beefy boxes, we could reduce our reliance on OVH cloud instances, which are averaging around $15k/month. It'll be a larger initial outlay, but the ongoing cost would come down (particularly since we're fortunate enough to have essentially free datacenter space). Thoughts? sage