Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting
September 27, 2004 at 10:30 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: Alice Howard
I. Corrections to
minutes from last meeting on August 25, 2004?
II. Old Business:
- Cluster projects:
- Teal Cluster: Have ordered CrayLink, once it arrives, Put 2 processors removed from crick and put into one teal node; use Craylink
hook them together. and link other 4 CPUs as well. Then Put PBSPro on them.
- Setup "teal-login" machine using one of old SGIs from 102 Small Hall- Block interactive login on all but "teal-login".
- Aspen & Birch cluster upgrade to 2.6 kernel. Timeline dependent on ROCKS upgrade.
- Have SUN netras and racking equipment been ordered for bigger, new orange cluster?
- 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.
- Condo Cluster proposal - is in progress. Announced in Sept. newsletter; got two inquiries already. Group working on this meets again October 14.
III. New Business:
- Funded: Ordering additional disk storage for Aspen and Birch cluster-Timeline?
- Funded: Extending warranty on Aspen and Birch Cluster. This makes their "expiration" when?
V. Adjourn by Noon and next meeting
- Next Scheduled Meeting: Monday, October 25th, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #102
Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim
Tolson or Alice Howard
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