Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing Standing Committee Meeting
April 24, 2006 at 10:30AM
2015 Ivy Road, 1st Floor Conference Room

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

I. Corrections to minutes from last meeting (Combined Standing Committee and Management) on December 16, 2005?

II. Old Business:

• Condo-Cluster 2 - How many nodes ordered?
  • Agreed at December meeting to the following timeline: have it set up and configured in June 2006. Therefore advertise it as “go live” in Summer 2006.
• Cedar Cluster:
  • At December meeting, Hamp said Steve would set up Grimshaw's AVAKI gateway when cluster was down on 12/20 for maintenance. Is it?
• Aspen & Birch Clusters: Any issues or concerns? (Agreed at 4/06 meeting to keep Birch running/under maintenance support another year.
• Oak Cluster: Proposal to make interactive? (Katherine)
• Teal Cluster: Any issues or concerns?
• Proposal for Linux cluster support as 'for-fee' service. At December meeting, Hamp said he'd translate current hourly Unix support rates into table/information showing cost for supporting cluster of X size for Y years.
• New "disk wedge" leasing rates. Have new disk rates discussed in December meeting approved?
  Is the latest iteration: $29 for first 10 GB, $15 for the next 11-100 GB, and $13 for anything >100 GB.
• Acquiring monitoring tools, as discussed in March, especially, MPI Link Checker?
• Andrew Grimshaw's request for Linux front-end to campus grid project – December mtg: Hamp will follow-up on this.
• Any news on UVa's participation to NSF's Request for Proposals for next generation/iteration of
  Supercomputing Centers?
• Mitch Rosen's IT - Infrastructure Supporting Research Task Force (https://www1.seas.virginia.edu/itrtf/). (Maillist is itrtf@virginia.edu) Early draft is circulating for input.
  • Andrew Grimshaw's concerns that it should address needs of top 2-5% power users/researchers
  • Secondary group of faculty and ITC staff working on CI-TEAM NSF proposal response.
• Update on CSS Research Computing support staff and services relocating to Brown Science & Engineering Library and Alderman Library fourth floor in summer 2006.

III. New Business:

• Should we undertake transistion from clear text passwords to Eservices for Windows connections to HSM & Longtmp? (Per emails from Steve L. / Mark S. in late December?)
• Other items?

IV. Adjourn by 12:00 PM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting of whole Standing Committee group: Monday, June 26th 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #102
• Next Scheduled Meeting of ITC ResComp Management team: Monday, May 22nd, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #220
  
  
  Please send suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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