From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Questions regarding offloading ( unprivileged setup , parallel builds ) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 18:39:53 +0100 Message-ID: <20180205173953.GA12638@thebird.nl> References: <87eflzhfjo.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiknk-0006tr-7k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:43:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eikng-00089L-JT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:43:32 -0500 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:45802) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eikng-00087W-BQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:43:28 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: YOANN P Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 04:13:31PM +0000, YOANN P wrote: > We could imagine a S3 storage for the store / state directories and > when we need compute resources to build packages, only start > preemptible instances who mount the same store through S3QL. > This way we only pay the storage for state / store directories > Best regards, > Yoann Are you on HPC? - we have a HPC working group, please join. One thing we discussed is content addressable binaries - that way we can fetch them from anywhere, even without signing! Pj. --