[opensolaris-summit] Summit Hardware

[John Sonnenschein]

On 10/3/07, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
> 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.


FWIW, I'd like to have more hard technical discussion as well. Eg, I'd
like if a couple of us could get together and hack HFS+ support in to
Solaris (this particular example is for purely selfish reasons
involving my laptop, my ipod & my SPARC), or something

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