[opensolaris-summit] Welcome to the "many kings ofthehill"-syndrome... / was: Re: Parking, biking, and Friday setup

[Garrett D'Amore]

Roland Mainz wrote:

I'm going to elide this and condense down your argument to what I 
*think* are your central concerns:

1) storage, general purpose, compute, jumpstart, etc.  (*not* large 
compilation jobs!).  For these tasks, I believe most people will use 
their personal laptops, or some combination of Sun Rays, network hosted 
systems, and removable storage.  A big honking system is, IMO, not the 
right answer for this class of problems, given that its only going to be 
there for two days.

2) large compute tasks.  Of those, I believe that only compilation is 
likely to be interesting in this venue.  I also *believe* that even a 3 
hour compilation job for all of ON (which is fairly typical on decent 
hardware) is going to take too long to make it feasible to integrate 
this much into our agenda.  Instead, doing *partial* compilation (e.g. 
cd into a directory and just do make in that subdirectory!) is going to 
be much much more likely to be useful.  There are also big honking 
servers offsite, for final verification if that is necessary.

I think the current plan, of a few U45s and U40s, is pretty good.

    -- Garrett