Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting
February 23, 2004 at 10:30 AM in Astronomy 117

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

I. Corrections to minutes from last meeting on January meeting held February 2, 2004?

II. Old Business:

• Magnetic tape retirement - done! (did get one request to read 9-track tape 2 weeks after deadline or to restore their Watson account!). 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; several packages tomorrow, where possible notifying affected users by individual e-mail as well as general announcement. .
• Unix Lab machines - Time Line for turning on console logging
• PBS Pro upgrade on Birch - done
• Updating Orange and Teal clusters to latest PBS Pro, move crick.med behind firewall.
• Put an SGI (crick) behind ACHS firewall for HIPAA use/compliance. (Timeline needed) Hamp recommends after looking at the hardware configurations, remove the extra 2 processors and Craylink from crick and turn it into a 2-processor machine. Put these into existing UnixLab SGI and use Craylink
• Teal Cluster: Outstanding (Timeline needed): PBSPro upgrade. Put 2 processors removed from crick and put into one teal node; use Craylink hook them together. If other 4 CPUs are compatible, link them as well. Define a "teal-login" machine. - Block interactive login on all but teal-login.
• Orange Cluster: PBSPro upgrade completed. Outstanding (Timeline needed): Define a "orange-login" machine. - Block interactive login on all but orange-login.
• Long term goal is to have routing queues set up (or Condor-G) so that user can log into central system and submit to any PBS queue we have.
  
• Intel compiler upgrade (Version 8.0 released mid-December) requires re-compile of all libraries. (Timeline needed)
• Update on where Enterprise Linux rollout, licensing and pricing.
• Unix Systems considering Linux Cluster support as a for-fee service?
• ITC's research computing "white paper" draft will be out this afternoon or Tuesday morning.
• DNS allocations in 10.x.x.x range update. Meeting scheduled? documentation?

III. New Business:

• Update on SEAS SUR grant clusters.
• Dropping/deleting Patran -has general announcement been made? Need to delete it out of "Available Software" list.

IV. Adjourn by 12:00 PM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting: Monday, March 29, 10:30 AM in ITC-Astronomy Conference room
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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