July 30, 2007 Minutes of the ITC-Research Computing Management Meeting

Minutes for the ITC-Research Computing Management Meeting

July 30, 2007 at 10:30 AM
2015 Ivy Road, 1st Floor Conference Room

Members: Alice, Hamp, Jim, Joe S., Mark, Mike, Robin, Terry, Tim S., Tom, Tim T.

Attending: Alice, Hamp, Joe S., Mark, Mike, Robin, Tom, Tim T.

I. Connection Question: What are you facing now that requires your courage?

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III. Old Business:

Elder is ready for rollout -- will go ahead with it after the HPC bootcamp – maybe August 21 or 22 – announce soon.
Athena retirement – also after the HPC bootcamp -- maybe August 21 or 22 – announce soon.

Tim/RCS staff will do review of other institutions queuing and cluster purchase programs in preparation for public forum on queuing policies. Will do the review after the HPC bootcamp. Likely to host the public forum in October – or maybe November.
Linux Clusters: Cedar, Dogwood – any issues, concerns or upcoming updates/changes?

Cluster upgrades depend on when next version of ROCKS released (RHEL 5 out), and no word yet -- possibly fall break.

Retiring/removing Sun Ultra60s from E225. Emailed Lloyd Harriott, EE Chair and Mitch. Proposed Aug 15 removal – and it is OK.
VT-UVa IT Collaboration. HPC Bootcamp Aug 7-10; 13-16.

Response/enrollment has been super!
James scheduled to do 9AM welcome along with Terry Herdman from VT.
Need to reserve nodes for quick turn around queues – after some discussion we decided to just use Dogwood for the bootcamp (in the interest of simplicity) – and keep Elder in reserve just in case it is needed.
August 16 field trip to VT for visualization facilities tour – invite other UVa folk (e.g., Bernie Fischer, Dean Abernathy, etc.)

IV. New Business:

All replacement license managers are running already – and aix.license is gone – will announce date for solaris.license.

Oak cluster upgrade – testing applications under Solaris 10. Will do upgrade the week of August 13 – taking down half of Oak, doing the upgrade, bring that half up, then taking down the other half.
Any news, information from E-School? SURA? Other organizations?
Any other Items?
- Mike announced that ITC go the go-ahead from Leonard Sandridge to proceed with plans to build the new machine room on Old Ivy Road. About 10K square feet of machine room, probably build out about half for immediate occupancy and rest later. Will be dark facility, no office or operations staff. He said Jim thinks it'll be about two years before occupancy.
Completion and review promises and requests from this meeting.

V. Adjourn by 12:00 and next meeting

The August 27^th meeting is cancelled! Next Scheduled Meeting of ITC ResComp Standing Committee: Monday, September 24, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #102 (First Floor Conference Room)!

Please send suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard

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