Administration weekly meetings
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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
- 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 -- CANCELLED
Agenda
- New Wiki pages
- New conferences
- Announcements and Publications
- Max: nobody seems to use the page Coming paper submissions.
People who will be absent
Anders
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
