Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting
March 4, 2005 at 9:00AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room 102
Re-scheduled from February 28 meeting that got snowed out...

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

I. Corrections to minutes from last meeting on November 29, 2004?

II. Old Business:

• Cluster projects:
  • "Condo" Cluster: 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.
    • Ordering four additional nodes to use at test cluster for 64-bit operation and hot spares.
    • 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 to 8 nodes not certain yet. Promised we'd have it in user-production mode by end of March.
    • see http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/itc-clusters/itc-linux-cluster-purchase-dec04.pdf for details.
  • Teak Cluster: Enough PBS licenses? Any outstanding issues?
  • Oak Cluster: one V210 will be front-end, rest nodes, named oak1.itc,oak2.itc, etc.
  • Set up in timesharing mode?
  • Enough PBS licenses, any outstanding PBS issues?
  • What to do with existing 6 netras that are orange1-6?
  • Aspen & Birch cluster upgrade to 2.6 kernel. Timeline dependent on ROCKS upgrade.
• /longtmp additional disk space from Library available yet?
  • script to automate checking usage and reminding users.
• 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".
  • Timeline for coming available?
  • What software products license will be served from it?
• Computer Sciences "grid clustering" proposal headed by Andrew Grimshaw. He can come any Monday around 11:15 AM. Do we want to meet in March to hear what he's doing with this project?
  

III. New Business:

• Move of remaining FlexLM / other license managers from jeeves.itc to appropriate xxx.license.virginia.edu
  • Already moved S-PLUS, Matlab Classroom, TotalView, & IMSL to aix.license.virginia.edu, right?
  • Moved to linux.license? And Moved to solaris.license?
• Scalapak doesn't work on Aspen and Birch. Need to install newest version of Intel compiler (8.1?) in order for Scalapak to work. Have researchers who need.
• blue.unix upgrade of nodes to new 64-bit nodes and new version of OS. ITC-Transitions CDP is tracking as well. Testing plan and timeline?
• Timeline and priority order of all these equipment rollouts (oak,blue.unix,longtmp disks, condo cluster, linux.license, etc.).

V. Adjourn by 10:30AM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting of this group: Monday, April 25th, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #102
• Next Scheduled Meeting of ITC ResComp Management team: Monday, March 28th, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #220
  
  
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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