Large Windows Runners - Githubissues

hmaarrfk commented 2 days ago

This fundable has not been submitted yet.

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Motivation

Infrastructure needed to help package large windows packages.

Expected result

A certain amount of large runners that can "opt in". Runners must not be exclusive to any one package, but rather for use by the conda-forge community as a whole.

Work items

[ ] Draft a sample donation policy.
[ ] Draft a sample set of requirements for the machine.
[ ] Do we need a visual studio license?
[ ] Execute on the donation of pool of windows runners.

References

[ ] The donation of large GPU runners.

Skills / personnel

Infrastructure setup for Windows runners.

Estimated costs and/or resources needed (optional)

I've been building cuda packages quickly on 128 GB of RAM. This can probably be setup for approximately $2k USD per machine.

We would probably need something like 10 large machines.

So about $20k of donated hardware + 10% FTE for maintenance?

h-vetinari commented 1 day ago

Isn't prefix planning already on donate some runners for this purpose in #231?

I mean, not that it would hurt to distribute the load a bit of course! ;)

hmaarrfk commented 1 day ago

I'm leaving this here open as a way for people to put money and work where their intentions are.