2019 04 09

Agenda

  - TODO AM, MT: prepare proposal discussion / brain storm

  - Frontera
    - 1st of May: early access
    - modest allocation
    - dedicated point of contact (technical) for 8 months
    - full operation: Jan 1st 2020
    - TODO: make case for out use case to TACC (Tim Cockerill, Bill Barth)
  - Summit
    - still broken, ticket is with IBM

  - resources:
    - bridges queue times are bad :-(
    - what resources can be used for development?
    - failing queues, runs are part of testing ;-)
    - AY: image processing: bridges has most software installed
    - MT: use interactive session to test
    - Amarel: heterogeneous, but we can fake homogeneous. subsets, or implement proper support
      - TODO AM: account for Amarel
    - some new research clusters may be coming along over the year
    - Seawolf (Stony Brook)?  Tiger?
    - CloudLab, Chameleon (Kate Keahey) --> software management?
    - TODO IP: check on Bridges-AI

  - new use cases coming out of london
  - state of QCG-Pilot?
    - TODO Aymen: look into capabilities
    - TODO AM, MT: compare architecture, structure, API

  - Matteo:
    - remote: April 11 - April 18 (partly offline)
  - Giannis:
    - TODO: planned for iceberg presentation: (stack, scope, ...)
  - Hyungro
    - data management in RP
      - 3 hours for reading files -> needs to be optimized to ~minutes
      - possibly use ZMQ to communicate data
      - shared FS is too expensive
      - can gromacs output be captured in memory?
  - Jumana
  - William
  - Srinivas
    - #302 fixed?  post-exec syntax has changed
    - repex arch changes, toward journal paper
    - TODO: Vivek: apply to repex simplex
  - Vivek
    - working on dissertation :-)
    - collaborating with Weyming, Uno
  - Aymen
  - Rafael