Bccd-ng-nov-23-2009

From Education

Aaron, Skylar, Sam L-M, Charlie, Fitz

BCCD v3 over Virtual Box at SC09 was a bit rough, not much we were able to see when trying to isolate the problem on-site. About 1/2 the laptops had problems, no brand or network patterns. Skylar's testing is in a similar environment without difficulty.

Tom's request for a designated machine (e.g. the instructor's) to be the server has exposed a race condition. Skylar is looking into it, about a 10 second window.

The SC Tutorials are looking for a new delivery platform, let's reconsider this in a couple of months.

Our documentation needs to be collected, organized, and updated. LittleFe, liberation, etc. Need someone

Testing matrix, BCCD user examples, live ISO and liberated, liberation itself.

We need to think about how to distribute large software packages, e.g. CUDA. The notion of the instructor's machine as local server is somewhat implemented. Partitioned USB SSD with BCCD on one and filesystem with downloaded packages on one or more other ones. Modules interface that points to the local server machine.