Attendees -Imre Polik, Brian Davison, Bruce Taggart, Slava Rotkin, Liangjie Hong, Kamil Klier, Peter Bryan, Gale Fritsche, Ben Felzer, Tim Foley, Ian Laurenzi, Steve Lidie, Meghanad Wagh, Brandon Leeds (minutes)

Excused - David Myers

Agenda

• Opening Remarks -- Brian

             Tradition of Excellence Award for Steve Lidie for work over summer getting new hardware online .

• Issues considered by sub-committees:

• Strategic Planning (Brian Davison, chair)
  

1- Brief update on HPC/computational engineering discussion at RCEAS retreat - Brian

Bruce feels next big ideas in HPC for the campus must come out of Dean's areas

           2- LTS software committee update on scientific computing licenses - Gale

                     LS-DYNA - Peter has information that allows us better pricing from a different vendor

                     Matlab - purchased 5 Parallel Compute Toolkit licenses purchased and installed

                               Plaxis - tabled discussion

                            Kamil  - wanted more Spartan licenses for Linux

                            Meghanad - how do we know what sw is out there, what stats are available on usage of specific titles

                            Brandon - new HPC web page will describe "parallel-aware, mulit-core capable" third party sw we currently posses

                            Slava - need specialized support for these titles

• Policies and Procedures (Peter Bryan, chair)
  

Peter will post policies he has collected from other universities

1- LTS machine room colocation policy update - Gale

 Draft document passed out and also circulated via email to members.

 Questions: is there 24x7 support on these systems : requires SNA Team Leader input

                            need to make agreement more attractive to faculty

                            six years of support of systems required  - not realistic, will be shortened

                            need to develop more of a shared condominium cluster program                    

• Outreach and Education (Ben Felzer, chair)

1- HPC Day Planning status - Ben

April 3, 2009 - keynote Dr. Rich Loft, NCAR, (link to recent appearance at SC08 - http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/SC/08/abs_loft.shtml);  morning HPC training with PSC agreed again; rooms reserved at RBC for the day - morning, lunch, keynote, and afternoon sessions - whatever they maybe ( Open panel discussion and 3 faculty talks, or just 3 or 4 talks and no panel).

• Future Systems (Slava Rotkin, chair)
  

1- Egenera donations update - Gale

received 3 systems; one is online, other 2 are ready for use, but just need a mission

• Proposal Development (Bob Kendi, chair)

• Operations - (not enough time to do any of these topics)
  

1- Super user privileges for GCM cluster - Gale

2- Altair performance update - Steve L.

This question came up while discussing dedicated use of HPC resources.  The original problem has not been corrected.

3- Software upgrades update - Steve L.

4- Ganglia monitoring utility update - Steve L.

5- Suggestions for use of remaining Egenera blades - Steve L.