Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting
May 24, 2004 at 10:30 AM in ITC-Dynamics, Room 102

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 March 29, 2004?

II. Old Business:

• VPN and IP Filtering for FlexLM license daemons.Done?
• 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?
• Status of getting 64-bit frontend of SMP (mp0.itc) replacement (old dump.itc H70 box) for athena?
• Aspen & Birch cluster upgrade to 2.6 kernel. Timeline-end of July. Still look do-able, given 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. 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.
• Update on SEAS SUR grant clusters - Hamp, Ed, Katherine, Tim met with Jeff Chisholm, Sean Whipkey and Mitch end of April (4/27) for "a strategic update on the IBM SUR Engineering/Medicine
  clusters & storage project, end-user support, /common software tree from jeeves and impact/issues
  of RH Enterprise 3 on their cluster.
• Linux distribution discussion. Concern of Mitch and other researchers. Unilateral announcement in early April.

III. New Business:

• /longtmp is over-subscribed, can we get more disk space?
• Implementing two queue system in PBS on Aspen and Birch.
• Birch crashes in April. Birch head node down all weekend 4/10-11; 4/29 & 5/1 not reported to postnews and downtimes not announced
• Discussion of Common Solutions Group "Research Computing Redux" Workshop at Boar's Head May 3rd attended by Tim S., Jim J., Hamp, Tom, Tim T., presentations at www.stonesoup.org/Meetings/0405/redux.pres
• Discussion of meeting with IBM on May 21, 2004 on comprehensive computational strategy for UVa.

• Next Scheduled Meeting: Monday, June 28, 10:30 AM in ITC-Dynamics room, #102
  I'll be on vacation then, should we skip this meeting and meet end of July (7/26)?
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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