Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing
Standing Committee Meeting
November 24, 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 October 31, 2003?

II. Old Business:

• SP retirement: December 15, 2003 - letters e-mailed to 19 (since 6/03) + 22 (9/02 to 6/03) recent users
• VPN and IP Filtering for FlexLM license daemons. Can we implement by mid-January on separate license computer?
• Clustering UnixLab machines - Console logging turned on?
• Aspen Cluster: 200GB disk on frontend, re-installation today.
• Ganglia/Gmond usage page -Making "ganglia" graphics work for UnixLab computers?
• PBS Pro upgrade on Birch, Bill was going to look into how complicated this upgrade would be, to schedule over Winter break

III. New Business:

• Transition from RedHat Linux to replacement.
  • Do we need separate CDP?
  • What to go to, how to decide, how to support, rollout, etc.
  • LSP and current user-base input
• On separate license manager computer, is it up yet? Can we get large drive (e.g., 40 or 80GB) with /common, on which we have root to do our software installs/upgrades?
• Two Charges from Dr. Reynolds:
  • "White paper" on next steps in ITC's research computing infrastructure by mid-February. Katherine and Ed have already have a rudimentary start, so we'll continue and pull together a draft to circulate, drawing from the RCTF and the three ad hoc faculty committees, two of which have final reports we can incorporate recommendations from.
  • Dean's Technology Council, December 10: mass storage/large storage needs.
    Pick up on discussions from RCTF ad hoc committee, include key people from that and produce draft for December 10 DTC.
• Leo Zhiglei (lz2n) wants to buy cluster - working with his students on testing on our cluster. He's talking with his Dean and Mitch Rosen. He'd like his house in MEC, so his students can have hands-on experience on setup, maintenance, administration.
• ITC's strategic planning: do we have specific input we want to suggest?

IV. Adjourn by 12:00 PM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting: Monday, December 22, 10:30 AM in ITC-Astronomy Conference room
  Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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