Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing Management Meeting
May 22, 2006 at 10:30AM
2015 Ivy Road, 2nd Floor Conference Room

Members: Alice, Hamp, Jim, Terry, Tim S., Tom S., Tim T.
Chair: Tim T.
Recorder: Alice Howard

I. Corrections to minutes from last meeting Management team meeting on April 6, 2006?

II. Old Business:

• Condo-Cluster 2, aka dogwood-
  • Agreed at December meeting to the following timeline: have it set up and configured in June 2006. Therefore advertise it as “go live” in Summer 2006.
• Cedar Cluster:
  • (From December mtg) Grimshaw's AVAKI gateway for clusters connected yet?
• Aspen & Birch Clusters: Any issues or concerns? (Agreed at 4/06 meeting to keep Birch running/under maintenance support another year.
• Oak Cluster: when to move from queue/cluster to interactive, round-robin login?
• Teal Cluster: Any issues or concerns?
• Proposal for Linux cluster support as 'for-fee' service. At December meeting, Hamp said he'd translate current hourly Unix support rates into table/information showing cost for supporting cluster of X size for Y years.
• Acquiring monitoring tools, as discussed in March, especially, MPI Link Checker? Hamp will see if ordered.
• Andrew Grimshaw's request for Linux front-end to campus grid project – December mtg: Hamp will follow-up on this.
• Update on transition from clear text passwords to Eservices for Unix logins/connections to blue.unix, HSM & Longtmp?
• Any news on UVa's participation to NSF's Request for Proposals for next generation/iteration of
  Supercomputing Centers?
• Mitch Rosen's IT - Infrastructure Supporting Research Task Force (https://www1.seas.virginia.edu/itrtf/). (Maillist is itrtf@virginia.edu) Early draft is circulating for input.
  • Secondary group of faculty and ITC staff working on CI-TEAM NSF proposal response. Approved Katherine & Ed 1/8 time each to work on grant if UVa gets it.
• Update on CSS Research Computing support staff and services relocating to Brown Science & Engineering Library and Alderman Library fourth floor in summer 2006.

III. New Business:

• Mitch's email about MAE faculty that wants 24-30 nodes with Infiniband. This would be separate cluster, right? Precedence?
• Other items?

IV. Adjourn by 12:00 PM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting of whole Standing Committee group: Monday, June 26th 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #102
• Next Scheduled Meeting of ITC ResComp Management team: Monday, July 24th, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #220
  
  
  Please send suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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