Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting

September 29, 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 July 28, 2003?

II. Old Business:

• SP retirement: December 15, 2003 -
• IBM SMP box switchover to PBSPro and upgrade of new frontend, athena to AIX 5.1 - Ready to announce?
• Faculty Advisory committee for Research Computing - Status of ACAC and UCIT?
• Is firewall in Carruthers up? Crick to be split in two with half behind this firewall.
• E-School Linux cluster rollout progress report and setup/configuration.
• VPN and IP Filtering for FlexLM license daemons. Several vendors are now requiring it, not just ESRI.
• Clustering UnixLab machines

III. New Business:

• Software Installs/upgrades needed to make compilers compatible with IMSL 5.0:
  • Upgrade Solaris compilers to Workshop 7
  • Upgrade SGI compilers to Mipspro 7.4
  • Upgrade IBM compilers on SMP with AIX 5.1
  • Compile MPICH with PGI/4.0 compilers on Aspen cluster
• Mathematica 5.0 install that requires upgrade of Jeeves upgrade to 5.1 - Downtime?
• Need tmpsync added to PBS epilogue on both aspen and birch clusters
• Aspen Cluster: When can 200GB disk be installed on frontend?

IV. Adjourn by 12:00 PM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting: Monday, October 27, 10:30 AM in ITC-Astronomy Conference room
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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