Attendees - Brian Davison, Ted Ralphs, Peter Bryan, Ben Felzer, Imre Polik, Gale Fritsche, Steve Lidie, Brandon Leeds (minutes)

Excused - 

Agenda

• Opening Remarks -- Brian

HPC Graduate Assistant contract renenwal - discussed and now awaiting action from Gale

Budget issues

Next meeting date change - will organize via email

• Issues considered by sub-committees:

• Outreach and Education (Ben Felzer, chair)

1- (no report)

• Future Systems (Slava Rotkin, chair)
  

1- (no report)

• Strategic Planning (Brian Davison, chair)
  

1- IBM SUR grant update.

IBM declined to offer Lehigh a grant this year.

• Policies and Procedures (Peter Bryan, chair)
  

1- New policies for access and usage of current and new hardware- new rates and opportunities for exclusive access to hardware

Extensive discussion on what kinds of rates can be put on services. HPC SC will publish a document outlining new rates and usage fees.

• Operations

1- Discussion on backup policies for existing and new storage subsystems - Brandon, Steve L.

Steve will move tape drive currently on nas1 over to nas2 (see below) 

2- New Sun Storage Server  -- Steve L.

 Called nas2, is up and running, using Solaris 10, and will hopefully use ZFS for its filesystems to enable snapshot capabilities