Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing Management Meeting
May 23, 2005 at 10:30AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room 220

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

I. Corrections to minutes from last meeting on March 28, 2005?

II. Old Business:

• Cluster projects:
  • "Condo" Cluster: (cedar.itc)126 nodes, Dual CPU Opteron's (1.8 Ghz) 2MB memory, 80GB hard drive. Will have its own disk storage array as new ones with birch and aspen. Will operate as 32-bit cluster for at least first year.
    • Have four researchers participating: Leo Zhigilei (lz2n) - 8 nodes w/ ETF $; Jeff Shabanowitz/Dina Bai (Chemistry)- 8 nodes; Phil Parrish/Rich Gregory - 4 nodes; Matt Neurock - 4 nodes.
    • In January, we promised we'd have it in user-production mode by end of March. In March, we sai mid-May for sure. TimeLine? Have been contacted by condo purchasers anxious to get going.
    • "Condo Cluster" program details preserved at: http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/itc-clusters/itc-linux-cluster-purchase-dec04.pdf.
  • Temp space for cypress - storage array like Aspen & Birch's
• Proposal for Linux cluster support as 'for-fee' service.
  • Need guidelines for how to handle support for researchers who don't purchase cluster support but expect assistance and guidance from ITC for their cluster.
• Linux license server, "linux.license.virginia.edu".
  • Move of all licenses off of "aix.license" because of its intermittant problems.
• New "disk wedge" leasing rates.
• Computer Sciences "grid clustering" proposal headed by Andrew Grimshaw. What is or should be ITC's involvement?
• No further word from Mitch on SEAS two request for 30 or so nodes each for two faculty candidates added to or part of cedar cluster for faculty recruitment.
• Updated Timeline and priority order of all other projects (blue.unix upgrade, additional longtmp disks, others?).
• Aspen cluster front-end down again for part of this past weekend. Possible to improve monitoring tools, as discussed last meeting?
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III. New Business:

• HPC conference at VT on May 25-26 - no one has volunteered to go.
• Changes to dotfiles and dropping "umenu" on ITC Unix systems (e.g., blue.unix)

V. Adjourn by 11:45AM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting of whole Standing Committee group: Monday, June 27th, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #102
• Next Scheduled Meeting of ITC ResComp Management team: Monday, July 25th, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #220
  
  
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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