Agenda for the ITC-Research Computing Standing Committee Meeting
June 26, 2006 at 10:30AM
2015 Ivy Road, 1st Floor Conference Room

Members: Alice, Bill, Dawn, Ed, Hamp, Kathy G., Katherine H., Jim, Mark S.., Martha, Nancy K., Robin, Sue Ellen, Steve, Terry, Tim S., Joe S., Tom S.

Chair: Tim T.
Recorder: Alice Howard

I. Corrections to minutes from last Standing Committee meeting on April 24, 2006?

II. Old Business:

• Condo-Cluster 2 - aka dogwood - Timetable was have it setup/running in June; Update?
  • Any update on SEAS faculty that wanted nodes or Infiniband cluster. Have new, incoming EnvSci faculty (Stephan de Wekker) who wants 8 nodes now and possibly more later.
• Cedar Cluster: any problems/issues? (schedule of OS update in early August will be based on dogwood rollout)
• Aspen & Birch Clusters: (schedule of OS update in early August will be based on dogwood rollout) Any issues or concerns?
  • Agreed at 4/06 meeting to keep Birch running/under maintenance support another year
  • Aspen to be retired in late fall. Matt Neurock may be interested in buying nodes from this.
• Oak Cluster: From May meeting: interactive, round-robin login most anytime. Will target this for mid-June and Hamp will check with Chip about preferred dates.
• Teal Cluster: Any issues or concerns?
• Proposal for Linux cluster support as 'for-fee' service. At December meeting, Hamp said he'd translate current hourly Unix support rates into table/information showing cost for supporting cluster of X size for Y years.
• Acquiring monitoring tools, as discussed in March, especially, MPI Link Checker?
• Andrew Grimshaw's request for Linux front-end to campus grid project – waiting on next version of AVAKI.
• Mitch Rosen's IT - Infrastructure Supporting Research Task Force (https://www1.seas.virginia.edu/itrtf/). (Maillist is itrtf@virginia.edu) Early draft is circulating for input.
  • CI-TEAM NSF proposal submitted on time.
• Update on CSS Research Computing support staff and services relocating to Brown Science & Engineering Library and Alderman Library fourth floor in summer 2006.

III. New Business:

• Other items?

IV. Adjourn by 12:00 PM and next meeting

• Next Scheduled Meeting of ITC ResComp Management team: Monday, July 24th, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #220
• Next Scheduled Meeting of whole Standing Committee group: Monday, August 28th, 10:30 AM in ITC-2015 Ivy Road, Room #102
  
  
  Please send suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson or Alice Howard
  

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