ATTENDING
- Jerry Sheehan, Pol Llovet, Aurelien Mazurie, Thomas Heetderks
ABSENT
- Welcome - Jerry
- Hyalite XDMOD Usage Summary - Pol
- XDMOD stats: March thru May 23
- Active Users: 35
- Total Jobs: 85,409
- Total CPU Hours: 1,687,511
- Average Job: 19.86 hours
- Average Wait Time: 20 hours
- Very Deep Queue in April
- >9K jobs deep
- Most from a single researcher
- Showed "fair-share" algorithm issues
- These issues are being addressed
- Hyalite Student Usage - Pol
- Student jobs 57% of cluster hours
- Total CPU Hours: 7,943,855.90 (since cluster installation)
- Student CPU Hours: 4,542,543.47 (57.18%)
- Graduate CPU Hours: 4,286,823.10 (53.96%)
- Undergrad CPU Hours: 255,720.37 (3.22%)
- disucssion: grad student work is research (traditionally), NOT "learning"
- Jerry: facilitating "learning"- course work might better be served with a wrapper
such as Jupyterhub
- Researcher Introduction: Joe Atwood, Agriculture Economics - Jerry
- Onboarded on Hyalite and setup R environment and Rstudio modules
- The weather data contains monthly total prcp and monthly average daily temp data for
the years 1900‐2009
- Work is pleasantly parallel on millions of linear calculations
- Hyalite Expansion Status - Pol
- 16 New Nodes to be installed soon
- late but should ship soon (late this week)
- should be installed with NO outage
- QUOTE on High CPU, RAM, I/O Node
- Quad E5-4648v3 CPU (96 HT cores)
- 512GB RAM (1TB max)
- 1TB Local SSD
- $15,000 - $18,000
- ~4x power, ~3.5x cost of existing node
- Research Data Census 2016 - Jerry
- RDC2: Demographics
- Most respondants: Faculty
- -- followed by Staff
- RDC2: Types of Data
- Majority Text & Spreadsheets
- There is an increase in Timeseries Data over last year
- RDC2: Research Data Size
- Majority: 10-100 GB
- There's an overall increase in data sizes over last year
- RDC2: Where do you store your data?
- Most data on Office or Lab computer
- -- followed by External HD
- RDC2: Long term storage need?
- Over half answered 1 TB
- Second most popular: 10 TB
- RDC2: Long term storage access methods?
- Mapped drive on Desktop most popular (but not by huge margin)
- Overall, responses very mixed
- RDC2: Business Model
- Majority prefer some other arrangement to Fee Based
- Most want a standard allocation with special arrangements for additional
- Research Focus Groups Summary - Jerry
- Two focus groups were held in May (mostly faculty)
- Concern expressed about "finding" institutional data assets
- Consistent with RDC2-- long term archive should be centrally supported
- How data is uploaded of little concern
- Next Steps
- Synthesis of RDC and Data Focus Groups results
- RFP Team named in June to development requirements
- July target date for RFP publication
- Data Science Competition - Aurelien
- Open to students from all disciplines
- Students are invited to solve a data-rich problem through visualization and/or number
crunching
- Currently working with the Office of Sustainability
- Competition around optimum deployment of new and existing bike racks across campus,
taking into account pedestrian traffic, bike traffic, sidewalks and building locations,
building occupancy
- ETA: Fall 2016
- disucssion: you should talk to Suzy Taylor (Extended University) about STEM Women
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