Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting
August 25, 2004 at 9:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room 102

Members: Alice, Bill, Dawn, Ed, Hamp, Kathy G., Katherine H., Jim, Mark S.., Martha, Robin, Sue Ellen, Steve, Terry, Tim S., Joe S., Tom S.
Chair: Tim T.
Recorder: VOLUNTEER?

I. Corrections to minutes from last meeting on July 26, 2004?

II. Old Business:

• Schedule from Hamp on getting these done:
  • Splitting SGI (crick) behind VPN firewall for HIPAA users.
  • Teal Cluster: 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. Put PBSPro on them.
  • Setup "teal-login" machine. - Block interactive login on all but "teal-login". Use one of SGIs from Unixlab as teal frontend.
  • Per timeline these two items were to be done by second week in August
  • Make old "dump.itc"(RS6000 H70) the 64-bit frontend of SMP (mp0.itc). DONE
  • Aspen & Birch cluster upgrade to 2.6 kernel. Timeline dependent on ROCKS upgrade.
• Additional disk space for /longtmp and script to automate checking usage and reminding users...Waiting for disk storage to come available, likely sometime in September
• Schedule for adding additional disk space to /common on jeeves for pending software installs (e.g,. SAS, Maple).
• Update on SEAS SUR grant clusters.
• Proposal for Linux cluster support as 'for-fee' service.
  • Need guidelines for how to handle support for researchers who don't purchase cluster support but expect assistance and guidance from ITC for their cluster.
• 102 Small Hall Unixlab closed August 1st to give space to CS. Praise & thanks to Hamp & his staff and Sharon Drumheller & her staff for working diligently to get everything out so quickly

III. New Business:

• New Linux cluster and condo scheme
  • Proposal for linux cluster support as for-fee service.
• Rather than using old Sun Ultra's in Carruther Machine room, use most of Unixlab budget to buy new solaris rack mounted servers.

V. Adjourn by 10:30 AM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting: Monday, September 27th, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #102
  
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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