Attendees - Brian Davison, Ted Ralphs, Bruce Dodson, Meghanad Wagh, David Myers, Ben Felzer, Gale Fritsche, Steve Lidie, Liangjie Hong, Brandon Leeds (minutes)

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Agenda

• Opening Remarks -- Brian and Ted
  

• Budget for 2009-2010 - Gale/Brian/Ted

Gale handed out budget outlines for review. Discussion included concern for linux workstation refreshes every 3 years and money that is used for those machines.

• Outreach and Education

1- Planning cycle for HPC Day 2010 - Brandon

Reviewed planning document that was created at end of last years HPC Day activities to be used specifically for this year's event planning.

2- Status of web page format updates to match LTS - Brandon

Reviewed currnet web look and feel. Went over Liangjie's attempt at conforming to the proposed format and discussed problems that were encountered and various drabacks, which included rollover menus, lack of space in which to present a lot of information on each page, and the lack of overall acceptance campus wide of the "standard". A decision was made to table adoption of that standard until such time that more of a concensus was reahed on campus as to what a common look and feel should be.

• Future Systems

1- Broad discussion of what kinds of plans do we want for future systems - Ted/Brian

Not gotten to.

• Strategic Planning

1- Computational Engineering and Science workshop - Oct 5-6 - Brian

Brian discussed the workshop and recommended members attend if possible.

2- Strategic planning for scientific computing at the university - Ted

 Not gotten to.

• Policies and Procedures

1. Status of high-resource usage accounts? - Gale/Steve L.

• Operations

1- Status update of availability and use of new systems - Steve L.

 Policy page on HPC pages has information on the cost of renting these machines but not an automate form of how to request this yet. Those interested are directed to contact Brandon.

2- Report on AC problems causing significant inferno outages - Steve L./Gale

Steve said we need to speak to Steve Roseman for accurate details but there is a need for increased capacity on very hot days which caused clusters to casue hotspots in machine room that could only be addressed by shutting off cluster nodes.

3- Status of Abaqus under Condor - Brandon/Liangjie

Report given on current status. Nothing has changed. Current solution is to provide Dr. Roy Inferno nodes on an as needed basis.