Attendees -Brian Davison, Peter Bryan, Liangjie Hong, Gale Fritsche, Steve Roseman, Steve Lidie, Ben Felzer, David Myers, Imre Polik, Meghanad Wagh, Slava Rotkin, Kamil Klier, Brandon Leeds (minutes)

Guests - Sougata Roy

Excused - Bruce Dodson

Agenda

• Opening Remarks -- Brian

• Budget for 2009-2010 (and beyond)

1. Significant budget reduction - how will we adjust?

Budget cut by 50% for next year. Gale prepared budget overview. Blaze on 5th year. Life cycle reserve should not be restricted to only Beowulf replacement, but also SMP type machinery. Recommendation to make sure next SMP system has better I/O subsystem than Altair.(Something better than SATA performance next time.) Software licensing comes out of a different budget.

1. Need for additional cost-recovery methods

Possibly change fee for Level 2 accounts(not changed since implemented), possibly charge for storage space, purchasing more equipment ( put storage and compute servers only available on pay side so it would support increasing level 2 fee).

• Issues considered by sub-committees:

• Outreach and Education (Ben Felzer, chair)

1- HPC Day Update --Brandon

44 registrants, check for keynote, just small details left on logistics. 

• Future Systems (Slava Rotkin, chair)
  

1- New hardware purchase (SMP for enhanced level 2 access, larger storage)

Discussed quotes from Sun (matching grant pricing) and Microway. Awaiting quotes from Dell.

 2- HP grant for tablet-PC classroom

HP grant application (PI Bruce Koel) if funded will need systems support for funding undergraduate student academics.

• Policies and Procedures (Peter Bryan, chair)
  

No report at this time

• Strategic Planning (Brian Davison, chair)
  

1- Update on RCEAS HPC subcommittee

• Proposal Development
  

1- IBM SUR update - Brian

Working on grant for NVidia GPU based core based computing. Just waiting on response - 4 projects highligted in grant but others waiting as well. Should know later this summer.

• Operations

1. Altair disk failure and kernel upgrade issues --Steve Lidie

Kernel mods seem to be helping in annoying slow downs ( software induced RAID issues possibly) - got rid of CPU lockups on large jobs.

• Other Items:

1. Abaqus issues - Sougata Roy 

Abaqus installation - CentoOS, Fedora much slower than RHEL speeds. Run on Condor on Altair.

• Next Meeting -- Brian

Need to move date and time   - move meeting to 10:10am on April 17, Friday

Discuss summer meeting schedule  - tabled to next meeting