| Tasks & Projects To Do: Last Updated 3/31/98 | ||
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| Project | Owner/Date | Comments |
| 1. Plans for unix cluster. | Hamp/Dee | Get equipment ordered for E-school this fiscal year. New cluster group being convened. Current WATT becomes Minerva replacement. Do some sizing. Small Solaris cluster and add AIX nodes? Maybe poll users on how they might use Solaris cluster. Software on only one platform, e.g., ANSYS on AIX versus take to Solaris. Move Khoros to Solaris? Other savings or costs? |
| 2. Archive (hardware and software). | Hamp
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Archive ADSM is 3.1 (not 3.0). SP can see it now. Transfer will be user by user. Target date: Fall, 1998 Contact each and say we will move you -- can't touch archive during transfer. Coordinate creation of new archive group. |
| 3. "Research News" | Tom | |
| 4. Software Installations and Updates (including GIS/ESRI and GCG) | Ross
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Map out GCG migration time table on Thurs, April 1st. No complaints from faraday to avery? GCG migration folks. Dawn and Lea met with Shirley Payne to see if she'd coordinate statewide ESRI purchase license. |
| 5. NPACI (National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure) and SUR Grant | ||
| 6. SP | Tom | Will get back on checkpoint issue. |
| 7. ITC Research Advisory Committee | Tim S. | Send Research Strategic Project/Plan to committee by email. |
| 8. GRA Training | Tom S. | "met" |
| 9. Department Outreach | Tom |
TAS talked to MRS - can tread lightly but share credit. He's not sure they see us as equal partners. |
| 10. Y2K Issues | Jim | We have Y2K plan for unix - it's under control. UVA Year 2000 Task Force Jeff Sponaugle chairing research issues |
| 11. Process Simplication | Tom | Research oriented piece of Process Simpl. OSP "G.A.M.S." $.25 million package that tracks grant $, positions, etc. Not really rsch comp. support but sort of. Melvin M. is ITC person on this task force. |
| 12. Non-IBM Research Computing Engines (both Sun and SGI) | Hamp | Proposal for next fiscal year. A cluster for researchers, i.e., not "entitlement" users. Research cluster - not blue or orange cluster. A kind of extenstion to SP. Not SP nodes - but would run LoadLeveler. Run GCG - visual piece - need interactive use greater than allowed with SP. |