ATTENDING
- Jerry Sheehan, Pol Llovet, Aurelien Mazurie, Thomas Heetderks
ABSENT
- Welcome & Introduction - Jerry
- Hyalite User Demographics - Pol
- Total User Accounts: 88
- Growth in users has been fairly study (except for a spike for a Mensur class)
- XDMoD (XSEDE Metrics on Demand) - Jerry & Pol
- XDMoD has been installed on Hyalite (thanks to Sean Cleveland)
- walk-thru of the graphs and information available (see here)
- Some information not available because of configuration (like Group or Lab)
- (discussion) Do we want this information openly available, or password protected?
- ACTION: we will password protect it (eventually)
- RCi Staffing for Hyalite & Bridger - Jerry
- All RCi team staff are unfunded
- For various reasons, our ideal is a 50/50 split on position funding (State/Grant)
- Hyalite was funded and installed without adequate support staffing
- To support Hyalite & the new Bridger network –
- Agreement with BIOS-IT for backup support
- We have the opportunity to engage .2 FTE position for 6 months (Sean Cleveland)
- UIT has collapsed two business office positions to create a new System Administrator
that will be primarily dedicated to Hyalite, DTNs, and Bridger
- Procurement Updates - Jerry & Pol
- 16 New Compute Nodes
- Our 44 nodes plus 16 new nodes for 60 total
- Standard Haswell nodes (32 cores, 64G ram)
- Will increase Hyalite compute by 36%
- ETA on installation is end of April
- Installation in conjuction with Bridger network changes (private IP address reassignment,
4 days)
- (discussion) wait for summer on this, or ASAP? (ACTION: will check with other members
not present)
- Backup Storage Appliance
- UIT working with Procurement to determin quickest process
- Will shoot for end of April to begin procurement
- This is just for HOME backup, NOT Project Storage
- Research/Project Storage Appliance
- Requirement input from two faculty/staff Focus Group meetings next month
- We will also use upcoming 2016 Data Census (next month) to determin requirements
- We will discuss Project Storage requirements at our next meeting
- Indiana University off-site backup update:
- close to finalizing legal agreement to move forward on this
- appreciate input from group members on usage criteria
- Queue Changes - Pol
- The implemented BigJob queue requested once (7 day R job for Poulter Lab, seemed to
work fine)
- Default only nodes moved to front (from 36-44 to 03-11)
- This makes more sense for queue use and future growth
- suggested by Mark Owkes
- Job stats for past month:
- 29 active users
- 4,476 jobs run
- 2.13 hours average wait time
- 10.36 hours average walltime per job
- 439,459.4 core hourse used
- Miscellaneous: MATLAB licenses - Pol
- we have received 10 additional licenses (including the Parallel Toolkit)
- we are waiting on CFAC funding for a campus-wide unlimited site license
ACTIONS
- RCi will check with non-present members about timing on Node installation/IP reassignment
- RCi will implements password protection on XDMoD access
FUTURE AGENDA
- Hyalite Communication & Publicity
- Research/Project Storage requirements
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