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Small update:

Found out that QCT has a decent-sized cloud as part of their solutions 
centre in Taiwan, and they seemed keen to help. Going to send them an 
email with details and see how we go.

Regards,


Tom

On 30/12/15 16:10, Tom Fifield wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We need to get moving on preparing a cloud for the TW App Hackfest. The
> cloud will support everyone's needs for the event, and be a "mission
> critical" component.
>
> Rico's put together a set of high level objectives for the cloud we need
> in the high level design document [1]. Though, to summarise: basically
> it's a kilo or liberty OpenStack cloud with a few hundred physical cores
> worth of capacity and running all the common services.
>
> Our preference is to try and re-use an existing cloud rather than build
> one ourselves. Though, unfortunately, as there are no public OpenStack
> clouds nearby network-wise, that means we're looking at internal clouds,
> or our second preference: build one for the event. If we do have to
> build one, we want to limit the variables to something that has been
> done before, and by experienced people to remove the risk of the
> platform not working.
>
> So far we've had expressions of interest related to the following
> organisations:
> * HP - Unfortunately, the HP public cloud will shut down before this
> event, but HP has still offered some assistance.
> * Inwinstack - offer to help build a system if we can find hardware
> * CHT - might have a cloud already internally. Need technical details.
> * ITRI - investigating whether they have an appropriate cloud or
> appropriate people who could help
>
> We're also asking around local hardware vendors to see who might have
> hardware we can borrow.
>
> Anyway, if you know of a cloud we might be able to use, or this is
> something you feel you can contribute to, please reply to the thread and
> maybe if we get enough people and ideas we will have a meeting :)
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tom
>
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> [1] High Level Design document:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y0dr_yRzPX19GD5zX2-Z5kXN7YGrCPck5OQJbaqWjTI/edit
>
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