I’d go, but I already have a vacation in Europe planned that week. General advice:
Take a laptop. Arrive a day early to learn your way around and test, and fix any issues. Bring executables on a flash drive in case your computer dies or gets lost. Even if you have a setup in the cloud you will need a local laptop. Don’t forget cables and power adapters. Test your remote setup thoroughly before you leave. Check with the organizers to see how they are running the tournament. If you can’t support their tournament software you might need to enter moves by hand. If you run remotely to your home, test the connection through your router firewall from an external network. Make sure you have someone you can call if someone goes wrong. I ran one contest on my home server, and there was a power failure at my home a few hours before the tournament. The server didn’t reboot properly. I had to call my son from Japan, wake him up, and ask him to turn the machine on. Next time I’ll have a UPS on the machine and my router. I’ve run remotely to AWS, which works pretty well. I recommend writing down step by step what you have to do to get everything going. You will be jet lagged and it’s easy to forget something. Once I ran remotely to a machine at Microsoft that wouldn’t accept outside connections. I had to write a proxy that ran on a machine in my home that the server and my laptop could connect to. Since it’s the first event, there might be some issues. Be patient with the organizers. It’s great that they are contributing time and money to computer go. Let them know how much you appreciate it. Email me directly if you have any questions. David From: Computer-go [mailto:computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of Brian Lee Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 7:10 PM To: computer-go@computer-go.org Subject: [Computer-go] World AI Go Open Hello everyone, Is anybody else planning to go to this event? https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/6ge1ul/the_1st_world_ai_go_open/ I'm a first timer to in-person computer go tournaments and am unsure how I should deal with logistics. I don't want to pack up my desktop in a suitcase so I've been thinking I should get my setup replicated in the cloud. This seems tricky though with respect to potential firewall issues, latency issues, etc. Would be happy to hear some advice from more experienced devs!
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