- 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(3/00|Hamp): load balancing/management software for O/T clusters.
- Eight Parallel nodes:
ToDo (3/99|Hamp) Check with Bill P. about whether can raise LoadLeveler Load limit from 1 and still have only 1 serial job, but allow parallel jobs to get nodes.
ToDo(11/99|Hamp) Re-run parallel job stats to see how turnaround times are. - Procedure or 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(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.
| Outstanding Software Installs | Received | By/Due | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Gnu Tree updates, esp. gcc 2.9.5 | ? | Done on Suns & SGI, | Problems getting version compiled under AIX 4.3 |
| 2. SAS on Orange Cluster | Hamp/Bob? April | ||
| 3. |
- 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.
Suggestions, additions, corrections to: Tim Tolson
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