Large Windows Runners

[hmaarrfk]

This fundable has not been submitted yet.

• This fundable has not been submitted yet.

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]

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]

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

[hmaarrfk]

For these funded projects, we need a proposal, a SOW, a budget, and a maintenance plance. Even writing this would be greatly helpful!