- UnixLab workstation upgrades are now part of the regular CSS labs &
classroom upgrade budget. Terry promised between $30K and $40K per year
for upgrading. We have $20K to use to replace the old SGI Indys this year.
- (2/00)Hamp says we need $22.5 K to replace the 3 Indys.
- ToDo(2/00|Tim T): check with Terry whether this much available in lab upgrade budget.
- ToDo (12/99| Hamp/Ed): Report on console logins at the Unix Workstations
in UnixLabs (Small Hall and E225)
- (2/00) Ed handed out report. Console logins are mostly short, less than half-hour, 45 minutes.
- Do we need UnixLabs at all?
ToDo(2/00|Tim T): Contact Mitch Rosen and Aylor on usage of UnixLabs. Suggest a survey of E-School faculty and graduate students. Also should check with LSPs Melissa and Diane. - ToDo(11/99|Ed): He'll look into what PBS can be configured for working with batch and interactive.
- ToDo(11/99|Ed): Research if PBS make it possible to include all Unixlab machines in classes/queues and still allow interactive login?
- ToDo(10/99|Hamp): See if can use load balancing piece of Sun load management software for O/T clusters.
- Eight Parallel nodes: how is priority to parallel jobs going? Orphans?
ToDo(11/99|Hamp) Re-run parallel job stats to see how turnaround times are. - Need to develop place for test/debugging parallel jobs; MPI on blue.unix? MPich on Orange/Teal cluster or separate small cluster of SUNs?
- TODO (12/99|Hamp): Will install mpich on Sun/SGI in /common, already there for AIX, will have to use IBM's, MPI on SP, because it's switch-aware.
- TODO (12/99:Hamp): Look at whether LoadLeveller allows interactive use of parallel nodes. 2/00: Hamp reported no, it doesn't
- Space allocations/policy.
- ToDo(7/99|TimT.): Is draft space/quota policy ready for Tim S. to take to directors?
- (2/00) Yes. Tim T. needs to give to Tim S.
- ToDo(10/99)|Tim): Check with Martha (MRS@) about what library does about disk space quotas.
- (1/00)I corresponded with Martha. None of the Centers have any disk quota/space policies.
- ToDo(10/99|Hamp): Talk to Martha (MRS@) about Alderman's disk space needs, possibly getting a HMS of their own.
- ToDo(9/99|Hamp): Make HSM account creation work like LONGTMP does now (admin script).
- ToDo(2/00|Dawn): Contact user to see if actually using SAS on HMS.
- Only some public directories, old Ken Scully archives left on maggie
ToDo(2/00|Hamp/Dawn): Decide if need any of these files.
| Outstanding Software Installs | Received | By/Due | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. S-Plus 5.1 for Solaris & AIX | June, 1999 | Chip/January 15 | License issues fixed; running on Solaris, waiting on upgrade of AIX to 4.3 |
| 2. LS-Dyna software for SP | January,2000 | Hamp/Bill? January | dropped the ball; installed early March |
| 3. Gnu Tree updates, esp. gcc 2.9.5 | ? |
- Licensing Parallel debugger, TotalView.
- TODO (1/00|Tom): Look into licensing, cost of TotalView; whether Grimshaw
will help pay for a platform (e.g., Linux)
- (2/00)Tom: we now have 2 user license for any platform.
- ToDo (TimT/Tom) Get together and decide about TotalView licenses and payment, from RCS and site license budget and for what platforms.
- Getting rid of old visualization software, Data Explorer and Khoros
- (2/00) Iris Explorer: over the last year, there's been 2 users, 1 consistent user. Gary Shiflett. It is a visual programming environment
Group decided that we will drop after this year - (2/00)Data Explorer: is now freeware, last time we contacted, they didn't have the latest version available for AIX. It's freeware now, so we should just let users who want it go to their website and download and we don't provide any support.
- (2/00) Khoros: Tom has latest version free, but there's no upgrade. The BME people use it on their machines. We should document that there's no upgrade and recommend IDL as the replacement.
- (2/00) Iris Explorer: over the last year, there's been 2 users, 1 consistent user. Gary Shiflett. It is a visual programming environment
- ToDo(2/00|Hamp): check on compiler usage/license logs, especially Sun.
- ToDo(2/00|Dawn) She'll see if there's an auto-parallelizing tool.
- ToDo(9/99|TimT): Attend ACAC meeting, tell about RCSC, ask to be regular participant to keep informed and inform them.
- Done 2/00. Attended first meeting, Tim T will attend regularly
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