astropy / astropy/astropy-benchmarks

Seek hardware to run nightly benchmark outside of STScI

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Description

We currently do not have a reliable nightly benchmarking infrastructure. STScI hosting is currently broken. And even when it runs, it is on a VM beyond our control.

As discussed in Astropy Coordination Meeting 2025, possible options we could pursue:

* From US-RSE Slack (thanks to Kelle Cruz): https://blog.omsf.io/introducing-omsf-self-hosted-runners/
* Oregon State University (thanks to James Tocknell): https://osuosl.org/services/hosting/details/
* Ethan Holz (OMSF): The OSU Open Source Lab is very cool! Also a great resource. I will note that the tool we produced requires you to bring your own cloud. More than happy to help bridge the knowledge gap if that is of interest to you!
* Ask NumFOCUS again?

Close #130

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Research direction

Start by reviewing why the current STScI nightly benchmarking hosting is unreliable, then compare the OMSF self-hosted runner, Oregon State University hosting, and NumFOCUS options linked in the issue. Done means selecting and documenting a reliable hosting path for nightly benchmarks outside STScI.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
infrastructure, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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