Hi William, Please add me too.
We'd be happy to help with what we already do: buildslaves for Debian/Ubuntu, PPA autobuild, perhaps some of this can be migrated onto those servers. We're most comfortable working on Debian/Ubuntu with LXC. Regards, Jan On 15 September 2015 at 21:22, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've created a SageMathCloud project that we can use for organization. > I've added everybody in "the team" to that: > > > https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/f125ea34-9817-4715-b879-e26e0c7fcb7c/files/ > > I've also made a folder "public" > > > https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/f125ea34-9817-4715-b879-e26e0c7fcb7c/files/public/ > > which is public to the world. > > Anyway, this will be a good place to record schedules, have chat, > layout the topology of the system, record security stuff and > decisions, etc. > > -- William > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:55 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Everybody, > > > > I think the current Sage UW cluster team is: > > > > - William Stein > > - Andrey Novoseltsev > > - Dima Pasechnik > > - Vincent Delecroix > > - Thierry > > - Samuel Lelievre > > - Harald Schilly > > - Andrew Ohana (minimal availability -- but wants to discuss) > > > > I think that's pretty good actually. To be in the team you have to > > volunteer to help out regularly for **the next year**. In exchange > > you get to help out, get admin on everything, and together we'll > > decide on what to do. > > > > Every option is on the table to start. > > > > There were some proposals above already about how to set things up. > > I propose that we come up with ideas and get ideas from the community, > > but that we together have final say on what to actually do, since > > we'll be doing all the work. We can vote/argue, but if there is major > > contention or a tie, I'll decide things somehow. > > > > Our goal (and the legally agreed upon thing with my university) is to > > support (a) sage developers, and (b) research mathematicians. > > > > Regarding hardware, there was no budget when I first sent this email, > > but now there is a small budget due to a much-appreciated (!) donation > > from a Sage developer. So, e.g., buying another full rack is an > > option. > > > > -- William > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Harald Schilly <h...@sagemath.com> > wrote: > >> I'm not an expert with configuring a cluster, but I've read good things > >> about "Ansible". Do we have any ansible "experts" among us? I think, > this > >> tool is a good fit because it describes "goals" and it's extensible with > >> custom modules (written in Python). My uneducated feeling is that we > should > >> really look into it … > >> > >> -- harald > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:13 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > I went to a talk by the TravisCI CEO a while ago and one advice that > >>> > struck > >>> > a chord was: If you have to log into your server you are doing it > wrong. > >>> > Its > >>> > of course OK for a one-off machine to debug / play around with, but > it > >>> > just > >>> > makes administration a time sink. Its better to just erase an > instance > >>> > and > >>> > recreate it from your orchestration tool. Solves the problem of > >>> > documenting > >>> > *what* you changed as a side effect. > >>> > > >>> > On that note, why not openstack / openshift / kubernetes / ...? Of > >>> > course > >>> > you can create and manage kvm images and/or containers by hand, but > why > >>> > reinvent the wheel. > >>> > >>> Let's start fresh! I'm open to any an all ideas for how to setup the > >>> cluster, and *greatly* appreciated your suggestions. > >>> > >>> -- William > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > -- > >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> > Groups "sage.math users" group. > >>> > To post to this group, send email to sagemath-us...@googlegroups.com > >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> > sagemath-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >>> > For more options, visit this group at > >>> > http://groups.google.com/group/sagemath-users > >>> > > >>> > --- > >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> > Groups > >>> > "sage.math users" group. > >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send > >>> > an > >>> > email to sagemath-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>> > > >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> William (http://wstein.org) > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Harald Schilly -- SageMath, Inc. > >> https://cloud.sagemath.com > >> Please sign up for a $7/month SageMathCloud membership. > >> Goto Billing tab in Account -> Credit Card -> Add a subscription > > > > > > > > -- > > William (http://wstein.org) > > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. 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