Administration weekly meetings

Previous administration meetings

Previous administration meeting

Thursday 19th January

Agenda

• New Wiki pages
• New conferences
• Announcements and Publications
• Max: Cluster and queueing system: In order to avoid that a node is chocked by too many concurrent jobs (this was happening when nodes were using heavily the swap space), we need to tune the number of slots per queue.

Results

• New Wiki pages
  • Max: For Apple computer owners
  • Max: Programming tips for the cluster
  • Max: IRIDIA Wi-Fi network
• New conferences: None
• Announcements and Publications: None
• Cluster and queueing system
  • 1GB of memory has been added to each node of the cluster. Now each node has 2GB or RAM, 4.5GB of swap space, and 20GB of /tmp space for local data storage. Nodes from r02 to r17 have 4x512MB DDR ECC REG DIMM, while nodes from r18 to r33 have 8*256MB DDR ECC REG DIMM.
  • The queues have been reniced like this: short=nice 2, medium=nice 3, long=nice 3, par=nice 2
  • The slots for queues have been changed like this: 3 slots in the short queue, 2 slots in the medium queue, 1 slot in the long queue and 1 slot in the parallel queue. We now have maximum 7 concurrent jobs per node (with an average space in RAM of 290MB per process) and 224 maximal concurrent jobs in the whole system.

Thursday 26th January

Agenda

• New Wiki pages
• New conferences
• Announcements and Publications
• Anders: Electronic journal access
• Anders: Business cards

Results

• New Wiki pages
  • Cloning a Debian server
  • Thomas and Alex are going to reorganize the Wiki because the frontpage is cluttering up
• New conferences
  • 2006 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference - deadline 1st Feb!! (see Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors)
• Announcements and Publications
  • Ciro is getting married
• Electronic journal access
  • Through Muriel's computer
• Business cards
  • Marco is going to put an item on the agenda once the money for business cards has been found.

Thursday 2nd February

Agenda

• New Wiki pages

Alex : a page about libsboteye Alex : Rehan announced a HOWTO about assembling/disassembling a sbot

• Marco: Coming paper submissions page
• New conferences
• Announcements and Publications
• Marco: We should add a wikipage with planned paper submission, deadlines for submission, and info on CPU usage requirements.
• Marco: New digital projector.
• Marco: When will the new server be operational?
• Marco: IRIDIA backup to be put in another building?
• Alex : More space for backup ?
• Alex : Raid5 backup would make me feel safier.

People that will be absent:

Rodi, Alex?

Results

• New Wiki pages
  • Libsboteye
  • SBot Disassembly and Reassembly HOWTO
  • Coming paper submissions - if you are going to publish something, but down the conference and you name on this page.
• New conferences: None
• Announcements and Publications: None
• When will the new server be operational?
  • Not tomorrow but within 1-2 months.
• IRIDIA backup to be put in another building?:
  • MD will check with the staff at the other location. Also it should be checked if there is enough bandwidth to run a backup server from that location.
• Other:
  • This wiki is slow. We are going to buy some more RAM for the current IRIDIA server.

Thursday 9th February

Agenda

• New Wiki pages
• New conferences
• Announcements and Publications

Thursday 16th February

Agenda

• New Wiki pages
• New conferences
• Announcements and Publications

Thursday 23rd February

Agenda

• New Wiki pages
• New conferences
• Announcements and Publications

People who will be absent

Marco D

Thursday 2nd March

Agenda

• New Wiki pages
• New conferences
• Announcements and Publications

People who will be absent

Marco D

Thursday 9th March

Agenda

• New Wiki pages
• New conferences
• Announcements and Publications

People who will be absent

Marco D

Thursday 16th March

Agenda

• New Wiki pages
• New conferences
• Announcements and Publications