[Yt-dev] Interest in a yt Workshop?
david collins
antpuncher at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 13:20:37 PDT 2011
> Dave, you're right, I misread. How much time can we get? I'm not
> sure what the limits are for the remaining types-of-meetings
> available. There are a few other venues we could explore in Austin,
> as well.
I had nixed it first, too, since I was looking for workshops. I'll
email the contact person and see what the skinny is.
> I'm still personally mostly in favor of EC2, I think, because I
> believe it will be easier for people to integrate into their existing
> workflow -- sshing into EC2 is probably a bit less invasive than
> rebooting with a USB drive. I might be off-base though, and it would
> be less robust for network interruptions.
I think EC2 is definitely a useful idea. Can you have a setup where
everyone gets their own accounts, but the environment is centrally
visible? Also if one is allowed to run screen on ec2, then network
interuuptions aren't _that_ big a deal...
Would it be possible to have just the yt stack installed on a thumb
drive, and not a whole linux distro, so users mount the drive then do
something like "source /thumbdrive/ytsetup" to set up their
environment? I'm not familiar enough with the dependencies of yt. I
agree that a full reboot is a hassle, esp. for those of using osx
(unless that's something that can be done...)
>
> I think the idea is to have them pre-prepared to save time and to boot
> onto, in case of network issues. I don't know how we would integrate
> that with mirroring onto personal USBs.
>
> -Matt
>
>>
>> From
>> G.S.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Brian O'Shea <bwoshea at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> > This is a very good idea. Maybe we could try it with Amazon EC2? I
>>>> > have had success building an AMI in the past, and it's very easy to
>>>> > do... although not free, and not local. I do though like the idea of
>>>> > thumb drives... and I can't imagine it wouldn't be an interactive
>>>> > workshop!
>>>>
>>>> That might be rad, if the network connection is reasonable-- If we had
>>>> 50 users for an 8 hour meeting and can swing the cheap option, that's
>>>> only $35. Show me 50 thumb drives for $35 and I'll show you 2 thumb
>>>> drives and a pile of plastic. Also windows users could get on with
>>>> putty, if there are any of those.
>>>>
>>>
>>> To pile onto this, if we choose to go that way I can get MSU to donate a
>>> big pile of thumb drives, though they will have some combination of MSU,
>>> ICER and Physics Department logos slapped onto them... :-)
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