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Imager-Tech Weekly
Meeting & Open Problems List
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Core Attendees: Robert Bridson(faculty rep), Glen Lee(tech staff rep), Brad Atcheson(linux/mac rep), Cheryl Lau(meeting coordinator), Ron Maharik(windows rep), Ernesto Torres(software manager)
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Core Attendees: Robert Bridson(faculty rep), Glen Lee(tech staff rep), Brad Atcheson(linux/mac rep), Cheryl Lau(meeting coordinator), Ernesto Torres(software manager)
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ICICS Cluster Scheduling
Date Opened: Nov 08, 2011
Impact: 3 = research affected
Contact Person: Hagin, Anika
Issue: Hagit and Anika are using the ICICS cluster and have had issues with job scheduling. If a long job is scheduled, it will use the entire cluster, making the cluster unavailable until that job finishes. This means that short jobs will have to wait until the long job finishes. Is there a way to change the scheduling policy so that short jobs can still run while long jobs are running?
Updates:
- Nov 22: Glen will see if Dave is in contact with Hagit.
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Date Opened: Oct 14, 2011
Impact: 1 = workaround identified |
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Date Opened: Oct 4, 2011
Impact: 1 = workaround identified
Contact Person: Brad
Issue: Is there a dept-wide license for Mathematica? The Math dept seems to offer it to anyone who will bring in their laptop.
Updates:
- Nov 8: Ernesto to add link to UBC IT page for Mathematica licence on the wiki.
- Nov 1: Updated list at https://bugs.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Imager/ImagerSoftwareList
- Oct 18: Can get list of available software in /cs/local/lib/pkg on Linux and Control Panel -> Programs on Windows on staff-supported machines.
- Oct 04: Glen will email help to see if we have Mathematica and to see if there is a list of dept-wide software on the cs webpage.
- Oct 25: Glen got the information from the UBC IT website. Ernesto will add a link to that page from our wiki/software list.
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Opening PDFs in Firefox - Using Chrome Instead
Date Opened: Jul 18, 2011 |
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Issue: With SuSE 11.4, the current version (5.0) of firefox does not open some PDFs. Typically, a black screen appears instead of the pdf. John was the tech staff contact for this issue.
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- Nov 8: Chrome is currently being tested on boxster. Need to figure out how updates will be applied for non-admin accounts. Need to ensure default configuration (cache dir/size) is correct. May not be enough time to test it before the upcoming freeze.
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- Nov 22: Glen will see if it's possible to use a different version of Firefox and if that will work. Otherwise, we'll just have to wait until acroread and firefox get updated.
- Nov 22: There's no need to try to get Chrome if we can't get it for Linux since the pdf problem occurs on Linux machines.
- Nov 08: Chrome is currently being tested on boxster. Need to figure out how updates will be applied for non-admin accounts. Need to ensure default configuration (cache dir/size) is correct. May not be enough time to test it before the upcoming freeze.
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- Oct 18: There is no soln for using acroread in Firefox. (Can use xpdf instead). Glen will be on the lookout for acroread updates. Best soln would be to get Chrome to work.
- Oct 04: Chrome is not part of 11.4 distribution, so tech staff won't support it. But, Glen will continue testing to see if he could get Chrome to work because it would be good to have if it opens pdfs and flash.
- Oct 04: Problem is with default version of acroread in 11.4 installation (in usr/bin). Glen will try to build a more current version of acroread in cs/local.
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- Check imager disk space list monthly for users over 25GB. (Nov 8: stray simulation currently generating large amounts of data)
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- Check imager disk space list monthly for users over 25GB.
- Nov 8: stray simulation currently generating large amounts of data on imager. Robert will ask Hagit to clean up or we may have to resort to quotas.
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- No replacement yet identified for Windows rep.
- Siggraph freeze: Nov 15-Jan 20. Update freeze list machines on Sunday before the freeze.
- Hagit/Anika reported an issue with ICICS cluster scheduling. Is Dave Brent aware of it?
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- Cheryl away Oct 25, Nov 1, and Nov 8.
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