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=BeSTGRID Steering Committee meeting, December 2006= |

Tuesday 5th December, noon - 2pm

  • Note

All documents tabled at meeting available in BeSTGRID Repository

Meeting to be held via EVO

;Attendees:

  • Paul Bonnington (Chair)
  • Nick Jones
  • Tim Chaffe
  • Neil Gemmell
  • Vladimir Mencl
  • Martin Johnson

;Apologies:

  • Robin Harrington
  • Previous Meeting

21st November 2006

  • Next Meeting

19th December 2006

Agenda

  1. Progress Reports

  2. Canterbury

  3. Massey

  4. Auckland

  5. Administration

  6. New Business

Action Items

  1. Neil provide specs etc on PAG cabinet to SC
  2. Neil / Tim to discuss storage
  3. Neil to assess interest in BIRN node at Canterbury
  4. Martin to chase HR re programmer position advertisement
  5. Martin to look at casual contract for student with Globus experience
  6. Martin to approach Massey re early order of Cluters in 2007
  7. Nick to request for a guiding principle from TEC as to whether we can lease Clusters even though they're budgeted in Capital Expenditure. Contact Lyn Clarke at Research Office, find out who our post award coordinator is and communicate through them.
  8. Nick to place milestones/budget on protected Steering Committee only WIKI page with current progress/status

Progress Reports

University of Canterbury

Neil Gemmell

  • Welcomed Vladimir Mencl to the team. Vladimir is on a 2 month initial contract, filling a similar role to Andrey

  • Gateway Node - HP are preferred supplier, will purchase comparable machine, order by end of 2006

  • Storage - discussions progressing. Looking to negotiate with IBM, Neil meeting with Murray Price to discuss

  • Received quote from BioMatters - $60k including overheads to develop JCU like portal, start Jan, complete in June 2007

  • Portable Access Grid

  • components being ordered this week, ETA a few weeks

  • cabinet design ($1500 - $1800) tube steel, lockable, connection ports builtin

Massey University

Martin

  1. PAG ordered a couple of weeks ago

  2. KAREN network connection is 1 to 2 months away from reaching Albany

  3. HR process for hiring programmer still moving slowly.

  4. A new hiring procedure at Massey has caused a backlog of 00's of applications remaining to be processed.

  5. A student with Globus GTK4 experience in Germany is available, a casual contract is an option although is already on another project for Martin so won't be fulltime

University of Auckland

Paul

  1. Storage ordered from IBM

  2. Can't share pricing and contract details from supplier as confidential

  3. Paul conducting an AG session with Oxford, Thursday 7th December - Maths education

  4. Develop Guidelines section on WIKI for maintaining info on use of EVO and AG

  5. Andrey in Melbourne for 3 days meeting with APAC

  6. seeking to become APAC cert authority

  7. list of technical questions to be answered

  8. good response from Melbourne group, meeting with 5+ ppl

  9. Bio Engineering BeSTGRID presentation to Peter Hunter and his group well received

  10. 3 areas of work

  • House SRS database. dump of data initially, portal to follow at a later date
  • SRB
  • Have custom developed software they'd like to gridify into GridSphere. Mike Cooling is lead with Andrey.
  1. BIRN node interest low at Auckland, as not a priority

BeSTGRID Administration

  1. TEC - rebid feedback due this week
  2. Nick informed that an ICT Academy project was accepted to develop a GridSphere portal for Network Simultion with the Network Simulation and Design research Group

New Business / Other

  1. Paul signalled that capital expenditure on clusters at Massey and Canterbury is scheduled for early 2007

  2. Massey

  3. evaluated cluster nodes already (options: 8 cores / 4 cores / infiniband / large memory)

  4. order when next payment comes through in March, or order earlier. Suggested Massey discuss with university whether they can make order earlier given certainty of funds

  5. Canterbury

  6. 20mths on current lease left. if purchase early 2007 then IBM suggest will leave current machine in place and add additional capacity. could purchase new, need to look at options. Could BeSTGRID purchase/own or through CU add to existing cluster

  7. existing leased cluster (8 nodes, 16 cores @, 32 GB Ram @), could buy 2 additional nodes

  8. need to establish whether we can lease capital equipment, ro do we have to buy, as budget has in capital budget, not operational budget - check with TEC