MeetingNotes20081020 (permalink)

Attendees - Liangjie Hong, Steve Lidie, Slava Rotkin, Ben Felzer, Imre Polik, Bruce Dodson, Terry Delph, Bob Kendi, Peter Bryan, Brian Davison, Brandon Leeds (minutes)

Agenda

• Standing sub-committees --Brian

Brian Passed out tentative Subcommittee membership lists. Chariman of the subcommittees will either volunteer or asked for by Brian. Brian asked for feedback and suggestions for possible other members or consulting adjuncts for specific subcommittees.

• Issues currently to be considered by sub-committees:

• Strategic Planning

1- Linux teaching lab -- Kamil

Most discussion tabled until next meeting since Kamil was not present. Brian asked for use cases to help support the need for such a facility. Prof  Rotkin suggested Prof Kritz in the Physics department and his course in Computational Methods.

• Operations

1- Altair performance update -- Steve

Nothing to report as yet.

2- Application software licensing -- Kamil

Skipped

3- Condor Job priority settings -- Kamil

Skipped

4- Status of MPI installtions on Altair and Leaf machines -- Steve

Steve said that MPI and MPI-2 was usable from all machines now.

5- Cluster node problem repair workflow -- Steve

Steve said new images on the leaf nodes were being put in place on the new hardware and that the old egenera hardware would be taken offline. New nodes would be numbered Leaf 19-36.

• Policies and Procedures

1- Machine room equipment policy -- Gale

• Outreach and Education

1- Updated HPC web pages -- Brandon

Many new webpages and the rest have continuing updates refreshing information. Asked committee members to take a look and give feedback.

2- IBM Cell BE training followup -- Brandon

Very successful training took place. IBM is awaiting Lehigh's SUR grant submission now that we have users/researchers with IBM Cell BE technical training in-house.

3- Condor documentation for blaze/inferno -- Steve/Brandon/Liangjie

Progressing. Working on Submission from public sites. Working with SNA to make this possible from Leaf machines and public space PC's without the need for and Enhanced Level 2 account.

• Future Systems

1- Egenera Goldman-Sachs donations update -- Gale

Skipped

• Proposal Development

1- IBM SUR Grant Proposal -- Brian

Skipped