| ITC-ResComp Tasks & Projects To Do: 1/25/99 |
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| Project | Owner/Date | Comments |
| 1. Unix Cluster | Hamp/Dee | Cluster CDP winding down; all users migrated, Feb 23: hobbes & palladio disabled, curry becomes web server only. Avery becomes web server only March 30. |
| 2. Non-IBM Research Computing Engines (both Sun and SGI) | Hamp/Tim T. |
Orange cluster and SGI cluster (Unix lab) names will be
orange#.unixlab and teal#.unixlab respectively.
Have "accounts" webpage similar to CTime's for these accounts and SP accounts...all be same account database. Not SP nodes - but would run LoadLeveler. Some interactive CPUs. Run GCG - visual piece - need interactive use greater than allowed with SP. Software on only one platform, e.g., ANSYS on AIX versus take to Solaris. Move Khoros to Solaris? Other savings or costs? |
| 3. Home Directory Project | Hamp/Dee | "Disk Wedges" approved at $63 per 250 MB per year. Allocating 6-8 GB for wedges. |
| 4. Archive (hardware and software). | Hamp/Tim T.
Tim T. |
Archive ADSM is 3.1 SP can see it now. IBM removed ADSM from Consortium software; waffling about cost. We're proceeding anyway, software wouldn't be off-list until 10/2000. Transfer will be user by user. Target date: Spring, 1999 Coordinate archive (ADSM) group. Contact each user and say we will move you-can't use archive during transfer. |
| 5. "Research News" | Tim T. | Writing for a spring "edition" |
| 6. Software Installations and Updates | . | . |
| 7. NPACI (National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure) and SUR Grant | Tim S. Tom |
Legion still has a "few" bugs. |
| 8. SP | Tom Ed Tim S. |
Will get back on checkpoint issue. Will survey/monitor class usage and see how accurately classes are being used. Still waiting on "fix" for switch. Upgrading nodes to 160 Mhz processors. 8 nodes will be dedicated to parallel jobs. |
| 9. ITC Research Advisory Committees | Tim S., Tom S.,
Tim T. |
UCIT committee drafting proposal/report for research computing.
Proposing expanding ACHS "model".
ACAC has res. computing subcommittee headed by Steve Stern. Discussing long & short term solutions. |
| 10. Department Outreach | Tim T. | From ACAC res. computing subcommittee: need to try again-figure out better way to reach faculty - faculty meetings? Surveys? |
| 11. Y2K Issues | Jim | We have Y2K plan for unix - it's under control. UVA Year 2000 Task Force Jeff Sponaugle chairing research issues |
| 12. Process Simplication | Tom | (2/98)Research oriented piece of Process Simpl. OSP "G.A.M.S." $.25 million package that tracks grant $, positions, etc. Not really research computing support, but sort of. Melvin Mallory is ITC person on this task force. |
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by Tim F.J. Tolson