Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting
March 29, 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 23, 2004?

II. Old Business:

• VPN and IP Filtering for FlexLM license daemons. Nearly done - just a few more packages to do. Matlab switches tomorrow.
• Delayed; watson problems; may move back to crick-Update?: Put an SGI (crick) behind ACHS firewall for HIPAA use/compliance. 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 (is this dependent on above?): 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-logi
• DNS allocations in 10.x.x.x range update. Meeting scheduled? documentation?
• Update on SEAS SUR grant clusters - Mitch contacted me about RCSG getting together with Sean & Jeff but haven't heard back from him about a date/time.

III. New Business:

• Prudent to develop time line now for installation and testing of Aspen & Birch clusters to 2.6 kernel. Seems like sometime mid-summer is appropriate, depending on ROCKS schedule
  • Hera @ RCSC could be upgraded to Fedora Core 2 when that is available and could serve as a test platform.
  • Upgrade to the Intel compiler 8.0 will be done at the time of the OS upgrade.
  • Next version of IMSL will be compiled with the Intel compiler, version 7.0 (maybe 7.1) rather than the PGI compiler. Therefore we have to be sure to retain the rpms even if Intel doesn't keep them available at their Web site.
  • We can retain the two 7.0 licenses as long as we wish and use them concurrently with our 8.0 licenses, since the compilers are purchased rather than "leased." However, the Intel representative wasn't able to change our 7.0 licenses to work on aix.license. Therefore we will need to keep an Intel compiler license manager running on jeeves.
• Cost and funding alternatives for a 64-bit frontend of the SMP?
  

IV. Adjourn by 12:00 PM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting: Monday, April 26, 10:30 AM in ITC-Astronomy Conference room
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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