2016 07 07

• Agenda:

  • Agenda Bashing

    • TODO MING/MATTEO: presentation next week (eScience)
    • TODO ANTONS: presentation in two weeks from now
    • TODO VIVEK : presentation in July
    • TODO SEAN : presentation in August
    • publications page
      • update to Iannis: TODO Mark, Antons, Iannis, Andre
      • TODO Iannis: send mail about how to update bib files
    • mlab limitations (size, performance, database, disconnect)
      • use EC2 instances again?
      • TODO AM: estimate traffic as f(n_units, ttc)
    • synapse ticket
      • TODO AM: check util branch req
    • BW: ORTE
      • TODO IANNIS: check devel
    • replacing /bin/sleep with something else
      • admins are prickly about too many idle runs (e.g. supermic)
      • short running jobs account as failure, changes queue policy (e.g. stampede)
      • TODO AM: expand synapse to cover 'compute for 5 min'
    • huddle on Friday 17th
      • TODO: define call time: 5pm
      • motivation: tutorial, summer school (500 people -> mongodb instances)
      • polar science group: 250k long running jobs
        • -> reliability
      • reliability: can be quantified
      • usability: less so, but can prioritized
      • docs: faq, error messages, what-if, how-to
      • TODO ALL: all come up with list of usability issues -> prioritize
        • Ming/Shawn: less info: tell me what to put where, press 'run'
        • Antons : have MongoDB installed as part of RP?
          • TODO AM : investigate options

  • BW Usage:

    • we are at 20% of allocation, need to east up about 40M core hours in next ~8 weeks
    • TODO ALL: design experiments

  • RP Status:

    • work on RP termination again :/
    • synapse / skeleton integration

  • Mark:

    • experiments
    • work on pilot data
    • consuming time on BW

  • Ming:

    • skeleton/synapse exp. on XSEDE
    • OSG: debug logs
    • work with team @Rochester

  • Antons:

    • experiments (Stampede & BW) and paper writing

  • Iannis:

    • spark@BW
    • leaflet@Spark
    • env@stampede (sh vs. bash)?

  • George:

    • n/a

  • Matteo:

    • paper writing (aimes)
    • set up aimes experiments
    • prep for DE visit (data analysis)

  • Vivek:

    • experiment etc.
    • things work ok for Charlie
      • Amber from TomC --> not compiled against our OpenMPI
      • TODO Vivek: check

  • Sean:

    • EnsembleMD + leaflet finder, Comet, Wrangler, BW

  • Alessio:

    • welcome!
    • modeling, testing

  • Shantenu:

    • Michael Shirts / Peter Kassun -> EnTK

  • next presentation: Antons

  • Tickets: *