Linux 12.1 Upgrade

Date Opened: Jan 31, 2012

Impact: 3 = research affected

Contact Person: Imager Tech

Issue: When will the imager upgrade to 12.1 happen? Support ends in Sept.

Updates:

• Feb 07: Brad has volunteered his machine for early adoption of 12.1.
• Feb 07: Tech staff is looking into the possibility of using dropbox. Glen will get an update. Note that SuSE 12.1 includes "ownCloud" which might solve the "sharing large files" issue.
• Feb 07: Glen will email Dave regarding the cluster.
• 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?

Updates:

• Feb 07: It is possible to have a symlink to NetApps space (imager). Glen will ask Mike if symlinks would work for other non-home dir space (var/tmp, /scratch).
• Feb 07: There is 230MB on FTP server (47MB free today, (help desk uses it for SuSE installs)). Too small to use for transferring files.
• 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?

ICICS Cluster Performance

Date Opened: Jan 31, 2012

Impact: 3 = research affected

Contact Person: Hagit, Anika

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?

Updates:

• Feb 07: Brad has requested quotes for PiCloud and Matlab Distributed Computing Server (which uses Torque scheduler)
• Feb 07: Glen will ask if help desk will allow use of PiCloud to create cluster with PSM's machines. How will updates and patches work?
• Feb 07: What is the future of the cluster? What OS is it using? Can it support 12.1? Glen will ask Sean or Mike.

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.
• No replacement yet identified for Windows rep.
• Will need replacement meeting coordinator when Cheryl leaves (~June).