ATTENDING
- Jerry Sheehan, Josh Turner, Pol Llovet, Aurelien Mazurie, Jonathan Hilmer, Thomas
Heetderks
ABSENT
- Welcome - Jerry
- Technical Issues - Pol
- Lustre File System Issues
- cuase unknown - may be related to NTP time drift
- 2 of 8 servers failed
- drives died - but NO data loss
- can probably consider it solved
- we have implemented SPLUNK and NetData for better future diagnostics
- Orphaned Jobs
- cause unknown - may be related to version of SLURM we are running
- SLURM not always shutting jobs down properly
- uneeded jobs are left to consume resources
- setting CPUs to run in high-performance mode seems to solve
- mainly one user (lab group) affected
- CFAC classroom node acquisition - Pol
- we will acquire 8 compute nodes
- classroom nodes on seperate queue, so classroom use seperated
- this will give us 73 total nodes
- Increased Queue Wait Time - Pol
- With increased cluster usage, wait time has increased
- Proposed mitigation: move some, appropriate users to XSEDE
- discussion: Yunes' lab has some students that may be good candidates
- discussion: can we do Mathamatica on XSEDE?
- not sure...
- MATLAB should work- but needs testing
- MATH dept might have some new users that would be good candidates
- check with Young Lab for possible candidates (SDSC/TACC/IU)
- Faculty Candidate Interviews - Pol & Aurelien
- some were pleasantly surprised about HPC resource availability
- some thought we would have research storage
- Jerry: hopefully we will soon - storage RFP should be posted in a couple of weeks
- CONDA - Aurelien & Pol
- not space efficient - but otherwise great
- has dramatically simplified scientific software configuration
- Aurelien: greatly solved problems for researcher I worked with
- may be worth bringing up again in the future - with more people
- ALCES FLIGHT - Jerry & Pol
- AWS spot pricing is good
- plug-n-play module management is nice
- good for compute problems of fixed and limited time (not long-running jobs)
ACTIONS
- Pol: send email to contributers -
- query contributer needs/requirements
- citation example link:
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