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+ Imager Disk Space 
 Date Opened: Jan 08, 2012
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+ Linux 12.1 Upgrade 
 Date Opened: Jan 31, 2012
  Impact: 3 = research affected
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+ Contact Person: Robert 
 Issue: The imager disk usage report from Jan 8, 2012 showed imager at 95%.  imager/local is the top dir, followed by project/AnimationPhysics.
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+ Contact Person: Imager Tech 
 Issue: When will the imager upgrade to 12.1 happen?  Support ends in Sept. 
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 Jan 31: When will the cluster be moved to 12.1?
  Jan 31: When will the upgrade happen for imager?  It should be in June or early July but no later to allow for Siggraph prep.
  Jan 31: Can submit software requests for 12.1 now.  Brad will submit request for clang.
 



 Sharing Large Files 
 Date Opened: Jan 31, 2012 
 Impact: 2 = inconvenience 
 Contact Person: Anika, Wolfgang 
 Issue: What is the best way to share large files with other universities?
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+ Jan 10: Robert will check disk usage with df daily this week.
  Jan 08: (email) Robert is in contact with Anika who has posted a large dataset on the imager webpage which is in imager/local.
  Jan 08: (email) Robert contacted help to try and figure out what's going on with imager/local.  Robert also asked Hagit to clean up.
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+ Jan 31: Is it possible to create a symlink in your webpage space to files on the raid space?
  Jan 31: How much space is on the FTP server?
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+ ICICS Cluster Scheduling 
 Date Opened: Nov 08, 2011
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+ ICICS Cluster Performance 
 Date Opened: Jan 31, 2012
  Impact: 3 = research affected 
 Contact Person: Hagit, Anika
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+ 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?
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+ Issue: If you have processes that read/write a lot that you want to run on the cluster, what's the best way to run these processes?
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+ Nov 22: Glen will see if Dave is in contact with Hagit.
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+ Update 1.
  Contact Person: Cheryl 
 Issue: When using Power Point through TSE on a Linux machine, viewing the slide show is not possible and also causes the program to crash (unsaved work is lost).  Allan mentioned that he could not view videos through tse. 
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+ Nov 8: No update. Glen will be documenting the workaround.
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+ Jan 31: Glen will post workaround instructions on imager technical information page and let help desk know about workaround.
  Nov 08: No update. Glen will be documenting the workaround.
  Oct 25: Not a print spooler issue since all TSE servers exhibit same problem. Probably a bug in TSE display drivers. Other users report similar issues. Workaround identified: first click the book-like icon next to the presentation icon, then click the presentation icon.
  Oct 18: The PowerPoint problem is not due to the print spool problem, and Glen will look into this.
  Oct 18: The tse server crashes often due to problems with the print spool.  The tech staff knows about this problem and is working on it.
  Meeting notes 
 
 Check Conference Freeze Dates page monthly and notify tech staff of any new freezes.
  Check imager disk space list monthly for users over 25GB.
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+ 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.
  No replacement yet identified for Windows rep.
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+ Siggraph freeze: Nov 15-Jan 20.  Update freeze list machines on Sunday before the freeze.
  Large directory /imager/local appeared on the disk usage email. Contents are 10-20 years old.
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+ Will need replacement meeting coordinator when Cheryl leaves (~June).

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