Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting
February 2, 2004 at 11:00 AM in Astronomy 117

Members: Alice, Bill, Brian, Dawn, Ed, Hamp, Kathy G., Katherine H., Jim, Mark S.., Martha, Michael, Robin, Sue Ellen, Steve, Terry, Tim S., Joe Simard, Tom S.
Chair: Tim T.
Recorder: Alice

I. Corrections to minutes from last meeting on November 24, 2003?

II. Old Business:

• SP retired on December 15, 2003 Hamp blocked logins in mid-afternoon; no complaints or last minute requests
• Magnetic tape retirement - in final phase. No 9-track tapes now. See announcement: http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/news/newsletterJan04.html#tapereading
• VPN and IP Filtering for FlexLM license daemons. Unix Systems set up separate server; Testing and documentation proceeding. Mathematica done; working on other packages one-by-one, notifying affected users first.
• Unix Lab machines - Console logging turned on?
• PBS Pro upgrade on Birch, Hamp was checking with Bill to see how complicated this upgrade would be in order to schedule over Winter break
• Updating Orange and Teal clusters to latest PBS Pro version. - timeline; could it be over winter break?
• Proposal to change configuration based on previous discussions: Create PBS cluster with front-end for each cluster.
• Put 2 of SGIs behind ACHS firewall for HIPAA use/compliance
• Take 4 compatible CPUs and hook them together via link. If other 4 CPUs are compatible, link them as well.
• Long term goal is to have routing queues set up (or Condor-G) so thta use can log into central system and submit to any PBS queue we have.
  
• Update on where Enterprise Linux rollout, licensing and pricing stands? Hamp's unilateral announcement/e-mail on Jan 15th to linux-admins
• Unix Systems considering Linux Cluster support as a for-fee service?
• ITC's research computing "white paper" draft will be out this week.

III. New Business:

• Software installations: (E-mailed January 7th) Intel 8.0 and Scalapack. Intel upgrade likely to be major.
  • Planning for next release of IMSL, which will be built with Intel compiler rather than PGI and may require older version of Intel compiler and MPI..
• DNS allocations in 10.x.x.x range - issues for Linux clusters, both within ITC and around U.Va?

IV. Adjourn by 12:00 PM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting: Monday, February 23, 10:30 AM in ITC-Astronomy Conference room
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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