Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting

March 31, 2003 at 10:30 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., Tom S.
Chair: Tim T.
Recorder: Alice

I. Corrections to minutes from last meeting on January 27, 2003?

II. Old Business:

• Aspen Xeon Cluster rollout - Ed's testing...
  • Small Problem on AMD & Xeon
  • Larger Problem on Xeon
  • Larger Problem on Xeon in Gflops
• Migrating Engineering school users off: kalman, kelly, frank, flemming, landau
• SP Migration

III. New Business:

• Combining and Licensing concerns with ANSYS licenses in Engineering School
• PBSPro has been taken over by Altair. Have already needed and gotten good tech suppport from them.
• IP Filtering on jeeves and VPN clients for Windows (PC-Anywhere) Macintosh and Linux
• Hamp: Security in UnixLabs: Issue of removing workstation from network, using it's IP address to mount home directories, using others' UIDs accessing directories, etc. Should we: end NFS access to home directories, using SMBClient instead? Other clients that do authentication?
• Can Windows (XP) drives be mounted to Aspen AMD and Xeon Clusters, securely and routinely?

• Monday April 28 at 10:30 AM in 117 Astronomy
  
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard