[opensolaris-summit] Summit Hardware

[Garrett D'Amore]

Ben Rockwood wrote:
> I can help in this area.  I'd be happy to provide temporary Joyent 
> Accelerators (Solaris Zones) for the event.  Mind you, these have the 
> natural limitations of a Zone so they may not fit the bill totally.
>
> In addition, I have at least one T1000 unallocated and may be able to 
> have one or more X4100's available as well. 
>
> One implied advantage of this is that there would be no noisy machines 
> drowning out the conversation.
>
> For onsite systems, I think we'd be better served by Ultra40 
> workstations.  If there won't be any I might bring mine.
>
> benr.
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I'm still trying to decide whether to go or not, given the way the 
agenda has evolved.  (I.e. pretty non-technical focus ...  or at least 
pretty far away from my main areas of interest, which is 
kernel/platform/driver related stuff.)

Given that this isn't going to be a hackathon-like event, how important 
is it to provide all this equipment?  I think a single Sun Ray server 
with a half dozen Sun Rays would be adequate, as most folks will 
probably have laptops they will bring.  (Far, far more important, IMO, 
will be decent network connectivity.)

Now if I'm mistaken, and this is going to have some breakout technical 
work/problem solving sessions where having machines handy to try things 
out is going to be important, then I'd really like to know, because it 
will certainly help motivate me.

    -- Garrett