Comment on Setting up a server for a research team. What should be in my checklist?

a1studmuffin@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• bergetfew@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Part of the reason why they left so many details vague was to give me some freedom on what to setup in the server based on what I think is right, although I do agree there needs to be clarification for some points.

  Could you give me a hint on what I should additionally ask regarding their server needs?

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  • a1studmuffin@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I guess as a starting point most of us in this thread don’t really know what university research teams do.

    If they had a laptop or phone, what kinds of things would they want to do that requires a server? Will they need email? Instant messaging? Document collaboration? Will there be sensitive information? Do they need specific software? Or put another way, without this server, what can’t they do?

    If you can give some hints on that kind of stuff, I’m sure people in this thread can help out more with specifics on software/tech recommendations.

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    • bergetfew@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I wasn’t able to get a clear response but I can say that they are primarily going to use it for writing and storing code like a Github repo, plus installation of 2-3 programs whose names I couldn’t recognise.

      They could use Github itself, but I know they know this too so but deliberate chose to work this way. I could probably suggest a software like Gitea or Forgejo for this purpose, but I suppose they aren’t in need of that.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Github doesn’t need a server. It is a cloud service.

        Why can’t they run the programs locally?

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I wasn’t able to get a clear response but I can say that they are primarily going to use it for writing and storing code like a Github repo, plus installation of 2-3 programs whose names I couldn’t recognise.

        This makes sense. Sometimes its better to run ‘helper’ programs in a remote container so configs and such are synced.

        If they are trying to setup an inference server for cursor or something, though, you will need to run OSX. Linux does not support Metal acceleration (last I checked).

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think step 1 would be to see if they need a server.

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