Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting

April 28, 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 March 31, 2003?

II. Old Business:

• Aspen Xeon Cluster rollout -
  • Bill: Amend PBSPro Script to echo cluster name and temp space location - done?
  • Need for additional disk space on both clusters. Hamp looking at cost of NetApp solution.
  • Totalview upgrade and need for kernal re-compile to fix incompatibility with Totalview. Will this require re-compile of compilers, etc.?
  • Intel vs. PGI compilers. After Xeon Cluster goes public, Katherine and Ed can begin testing and comparison to see if can settle on just one.
  • Katherine/Ed: Testing and support of test users. Any other outstanding issues or concerns?
• Aspen AMD Cluster - Hamp said need a day of downtime after semester to upgrade. Date?
• SP Migration - Have been in contact with some users, working with Lester Andrews and Gaussian users. Will send e-mail to all current SP users when announced availability of Xeon Cluster.
• Network Security of Workstations in Unix Labs: Unix Systems testing SMBClient and installing SecureNFS on NetApp. Is rollout of this something we should announce?

III. New Business:

• The Aspen Clusters need names that users can remember and use to login and they and we can communicate with clearly and easily. Propose "aspen" for lc0 and "birch" for lc1 (a tree theme) as names to be used for login and documentation.

• Currently no May meeting planned - should we try to meet Monday, May 19th? Both Tim S. & Jim have conflict with 10:30-11:30 time frame. Next schedule meeting is June 30th at 10:30 AM in 117 Astronomy
  
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard