ATTENDING
- Jerry Sheehan, Pol Llovet, Aurelien Mazurie, Thomas Heetderks
ABSENT
MINUTES: Introduction to Hyalite & HPCAG
- Overview of HPCAG - Jerry presenting
- Background of the cluster - Jerry presenting
- The Cluster Queue Structure - Pol presenting
- discussion: is the ADMIN queue wasteful? It is a tradeoff, it removes ADMIN load from
the HEAD NODE. This may no longer be needed now that we have a HIGH AVAILABILITY HEAD
NODE.
- discussion: what if the queue gets overloaded? This will probabably not happen, but
if it does, we will make allocations available (we can manually override)
- System Administration - Jerry presenting
- Cluster Metrics - Jerry/Pol presenting
- Compute Hardware - Pol/Jerry presenting
- discussion: how durable is the storage? All storage is RAID5, very durable.
- Cluster Expansion - Pol presenting
- commented: since we have limited datacenter space, inplace swapping may get us the
most in upgrades.
- commented: would like to see more about educational use
ACTIONS
- RCi will plan on 70/30 for storage/compute
- RCi will persue an agreement with UI for disaster recovery backup storage
- RCi is working with BIOSIT to make samba mounts work (for desktop accessability)
- RCi is working on an interactive GUI for submitting jobs
FUTURE AGENDA
- Recearch Project Backups
- Job Scheduling Optimization
- Cluster Software
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