| ITC-ResComp Tasks & Projects COMPLETED - Last Update 09/29/98 |
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| Date | Project | Owner | Comments |
| May-Sep 98 | Unix Cluster
Home Directory Non-IBM Computing Engines |
Hamp/Dee Hamp Hamp/Jim |
Do some sizing. Small Solaris cluster and add AIX nodes? Make announcement when adding new nodes to cluster Insure that all software is mounted on all the new nodes when they're added Several load testing trials, went well. Proposal for next fiscal year. A cluster for researchers, i.e., not "entitlement" users. Research cluster - not blue or orange cluster. A kind of extenstion to SP. Not SP nodes - but would run LoadLeveler. Run GCG - visual piece - need interactive use greater than allowed with SP. Maybe poll users on how they might use Solaris cluster. Software on only one platform, e.g., ANSYS on AIX versus take to Solaris. Move Khoros to Solaris? Other savings or costs? |
| Apr 98 | Unix Cluster
Software |
Jim/Hamp
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Get equipment ordered for E-school this fiscal year. New cluster group being convened. Current WATT becomes Minerva replacement. Map out GCG migration time table on Thurs, April 1st. No complaints from faraday to crick or crimson.unix GCG migration folks. Dawn and Lea met with Shirley Payne in 3/98 to see if she'd coordinate statewide ESRI purchase license. |
| Mar 98 | Unix Cluster Research News Software(GCG)
SUR Grant Y2K Issues |
Jim/Hamp Tom S Ross
Tim S/Hamp Tim T |
Final announcements sent out; Faraday went away on March 25th. Dialin link added from TMS's email. Second issue out in March '98. Moved the avery users of GCG to ACHC's crick. Moved the other GCG users to a Unix lab machine; only one CPU. Dawn spoke with Steve H. and gave him info on ESRI. Haven't heard from Steve about meeting of Univ. and college purchasing. Notice on web page sent to research group. All equipment installed and running; even Biochemical Engineering stuff. Meeting held with Jeff S. Special focus on researchers discussed at March mtg. |
| Feb 98 | Gaussian (G94) NPACI Web Page |
Ross Chris |
Biochem user working. Runs 3 jobs at time/she's happy. Web page done! |
| Jan 98 | vBNS and Internet2 | Jim | Internet 2 project has been funded by the University and NSF (50/50). vBNS connection made 8/23/97; getting ~10 megabits/second (during test to ODU). Will only see increased thruput if moving data between supercomputer sites, NASA, DOE, or 20 other Univ. sites (all I2 sites - no real difference in commodi ty traffic). Need to update info at: HP Network Connection Project and Internet 2 project (better page) |
| Nov 97 | Research News | Tom S | The first issues of Research News has been mailed. An itc-research mailing list has been created (owned/moderated by Dawn) - current membership is about 100. A News item has been added to to Research Computing Group home page. |
| N.A. | SP | Hamp Chris |
4 nodes here and installed. However the nodes are still undergoing
testing - they are not "active" and can not be accessed yet. We
are persuing further expansion. We should announce the new nodes to the university community (good PR). Bill and Chris are investigating revamping the job queues. |
| N.A. | Strategic Plan III E-3. Improved Communication among those supporting researchers. | Dee | Tom S. is attending ATG meetings |
| N.A. | ESRI Update | Tom | Wally Reed was given $8,000 from ITC to apply to the purchase of the ESRI/GIS software (for the 1998 year only). ITC needs to track usage (userid and machine/department) and distribution of disks. |
| N.A. | ESRI proposal submitted. | Tom | There will be a state GIS
group as of July 1. Tom will look into the possible impact of this group.
Tom met with Denise Stevens of UVA GIS center.
Discussion about proposal. Important that ResComp group make recommendation on ESRI software. (Dee will do) Tom S. Most of GIS use is through ptolemy through a web interface. About 50% of this is non-UVA. Martha: lots of support issues. We don't want to encourage GIS support. Dee/Tom S. we will provide running environment support for ESRI,but not application support. Tom S.: software is in disarray on ptolemy, about 1/2 days work to clean up. If GIS Center cleaned things up, then we could provide "running environment" support. Tom S.: could we recommend $0 for this year since we're already providing hardware and start counting use for next year? Martha: or say $10K this year and will track usage to see if usage justifies continued financial support. |
| N.A. | Cost of adding software to Software Consortium. | Tom | $9,000 for SP software (including MPI, HPF) added to existing software budget (Operations budget). |
| N.A. | Will talk with Terry about having someone from ResComp sit in on DSCO's division meetings | Martha | No regularly scheduled meetings, but we are welcome. |
| N.A. | Facilitate flow of information between Research Computing and DSCO: As dept. assessments are done, information will be shared. | Martha | Dept. assessments will go to dept. before to other ITC
staff. Martha and Ross are meeting with Terry re this issue (ie it is ongoing) - the group feels strongly that we need to be involved in the recommendation process. |
| N.A. | 11/96 Call to James Adams | Jim | Jim was not able to attend the meeting. |
| N.A. | Maggie ftp: staff should access maggie with "ftp maggie.itc 1021" ; users use "ftp maggie.itc" to access files in the /archive area. | Hamp | Change made; Tom will contact archive users. Tom will also send notice to LSPs, postnews, etc. |
| N.A. | Will talk to Nancy Boling on participating in assessments. | Tom | Nancy will provide a list of things on which we can help. |
| N.A. | Review ResComp brochure and update for fall; review ResComp Web site; conform to ITCWeb standards. | Tom | Should we have "new faculty" page? Put off of ITCWeb or ResComp? Note: This item is being removed (though it has not been completed) - as it does not fall under the auspices of this group. |
| N.A. | Plans for faraday cluster.
Software issues to resolve:
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Hamp
Tim T. Ross/Jacques |
Problems with NFS responsiveness; Hamp requested Help Desk to log
faraday problems. usd-staff and LSPs (postnews?) will be notified of
changes to and problems with faraday; Jason can extract date from HD
Call Tracking logs.
SAS and LISREL costs reasonable, have been increased to cover
clustering.
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| N.A. | Joe Burch will maintain systems status Web page; Help Desk staff will post items; remove Pete Y's name from page and change mail to consult@virginia.edu | Hamp | Dawn modified Systems Status page. Help Desk and Systems and Networks will post to page as appropriate. |
| N.A. | Develop script to automate putting wrapper on applications to collect software usage data. | Dawn | The script - wrapper.pl resides in userv/bin on holmes. The script writes the systems group and asks for the installation of, or the removal of, a statistics gathering wrapper. To invoke: wrapper.pl. |
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