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The meeting was called to order at 1:30 PM.
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The agenda was accepted by unanimous consent
- J. Peters brought up the issue of having a scheduled service
window. Such a service window would allow people to expect
down-times at well-known time periods and they could adjust
their schedules and expectations accordingly.
ACTION: The system personnel are to report on a
suggested service window in the next meeting.
- J. Peters inquired about the status of Linux deployment.
System personnel stated that they expect to have a Linux
deployment based on Red-Hat completed by the end of November.
- J. Wilson gave an update on the Gartner Lab status and brought
forth the issue of an access policy for groups of lab users.
With our new Gator-One Card entry system, we will need to
authorize users to gain access to specific areas during
given time periods.
The access levels discussed and agreed to by unanimous consent
were the following:
- Room 114
- Faculty and Graduate Students 24 hours
Undergraduates during daytime operating hours.
- Room 113 (Systems Lab)
- Lee authorizes access to this room
- Room 115 (Networks Laboratory)
- Newman, Helal, and Liu authorize access to this room
- Room 166 (Multimedia)
- All users access 24 hours
- Some discussion was held concerning the disposition of room
E309 after the Gartner Lab is open. S. Helal suggested that
we should provide DHCP controlled network access for student
notebook computers. J. Hranicky noted that it might be nice
to leave the carrels.
- P. Benett brought up the idea that we could use room 413 for
the Harris Communications lab, noting that the raised floor
could be beneficial to lab operation. S. Helal agreed that
this might be useful. It was unanimously agreed that J. Wilson
would follow up by investigating this idea.
- Room 413 was identified as a possible place to relocate ACM.
M. Frank was to follow up on this.
- J. Hranicky discussed the operation of our Cluster and the
Raid Level 0+1 striping plan. He also discussed the problems
we'd had recently with one A5000 disk array.
Moved: S. Helal, Seconded: S. Thebaut
We should purchase maintenance for the Cluster and get SCSI
disks to provide a redundant non-mirrored backup.
Motion passed unanimously.
- The issue of how much disk storage should be purchased was
brought up. J. Wilson noted that there is currently an
outstanding commitment by Columbia University to provide
approximately $30,000 worth of equipment to UF. The list
of equipment to be purchased includes 4 18-GB fiber-channel
disks.
ACTION: S. Beck was charged with reporting on current
disk utilization
on the cluster, and with estimating resources necessary to
provide quota in the amounts of 1G per faculty member,
500M per grad student, and 50M per undergrad.
- The meeting was adjourned at approximately 2:45.