Notes for the ITC-Research Computing Standing Committee Meeting
September 14, 2009 at 10:45 AM
ITC-Dynamics 1st Floor Conference Room
Members: Alice, Andrew, Hamp, Jim, Joe S., Mark, Mike, Robin, Terry, Tim S., Tom
and members of Systems, Research Computing and ACHS as desired
Attending: Alice, Hamp, Jim, Joe S., Mark, Robin, Tom, Katherine Holcomb, Ed
Hall
I. Corrections to minutes
from last meeting on July 13, 2009? (Click to review
the agenda
from this meeting)
II. Old Business:
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Katherine sent
out a draft announcement/letter in June and did not receive any comments back.
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Decided to make
this change for new users at noon today (09/14/09) – and will document
the change and give instructions to existing account holders about how to
change to bash.
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No news.
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Done and license
keys updated.
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We might now have
some user demand/need for additional memory for Dogwood – Katherine will
check with Andrew about needs for specific amounts of memory – and Hamp
will get some updated pricing.
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We will hold off
on this discussion until Andrew can be present.
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Avik Ghosh is
buying 10 nodes – Cameron Mura has a request for funding – Hamp
will get back with Leonard Scott.
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Actually it is
more work to take it out than to just leave it – but we will not advertise
that we have it.
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We are using
glustre now and it is doing great.
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Katherine has
moved and updated the cluster-related documentation to UVACSE – and made
a start on updating the HSM documentation – Ed will be working on the
Matlab/etc documentation – could tell ScottC to redirect to what is
already up and updated.
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The new mid-tier
storage rates have been approved and discussed at DTC and LSP meetings –
also have new Enterprise storage rates (that include snapshots) – and
there is a draft website that will document the functionality and differences
between the various levels of storage options for users.
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Skip this topic
for today.
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This topic
skipped too.
III. New Business:
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Use of our grid
resources is growing –and demand is increasing (e.g. two faculty - Physics,
Biostatistics - need a LOT of cpu time) – Andrew is looking for more
linux boxes (clusters or single machines) that can be added to our grid. Katherine will be a test case for
adding staff workstations to the grid.
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Jim mentioned
there are SURAgrid resources (http://www.sura.org/programs/sura_grid.html)
that could be available for our researchers – and they could start first
using our own SURAgrid 19 node cluster.
Andrew will talk to Hamp.
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Hardly anyone is
using 32-bit – so this does not seem worth doing. We should announce that we are not
patching/upgrading 32-bit applications – but first pass this idea by
Tracy and the Service Transition group.
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A dead issue.
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work this out – who should be included from ITC, Libraries, UVACSE, and
SHANTI? Start with
Mark, Tom, Katherine (UVACSE), Nancy K (ScholarsÕ Lab), Kathy G (RCL), Andrew
Sallans (Brown Library), Joe Gilbert (Alderman), and John A or Yuji (SHANTI).
IV. Adjourn by 11:45 and next
meeting