ERSUG Meeting: Monday November 15, 1999

Doubletree Hotel - Lloyd Center, Portland

The next NERSC User Group (ERSUG) meeting will be held in conjunction with the Supercomputing 99 meeting in Portland, OR, on Monday November 15, between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm. The SC99 main exhibit opens Monday evening.

Hotel space for SC99 is fast running out. Those planning to attend ERSUG or SC99 are advised to register for housing soon by way of the SC99 web pages at http://www.sc99.org.

A small block of rooms has been reserved at the Doubletree Hotel - Lloyd Center, Portland, to accommodate members attending the Fall ERSUG meeting taking place at that same location on Monday, November 15th.

The rate is $113 plus tax and the firm deadline for reservations is Thursday, October 14th.

To reserve, please do not contact the hotel directly, there is a third party holding this block on our behalf.

Rather, forward the following information to: Roberta Boucher, Meeting Coordinator at rlboucher@lbl.gov or Phone 510.486.7580

Name, organization, and phone number
Dates of arrival and departure (Note: Due to the extreme housing shortage in Portland, these rooms are limited to check-in on Sunday the 14th and departure on Tuesday the 16th)
Credit card number and /expiration date to guarantee reservation

The proposed transition from ERSUG to the renamed NERSC Users Group (NUG) and its proposed charter will be discussed.

Agenda:

08:30   Breakfast served
08:45   Welcome                                Bas Braams & Horst Simon
09:00   State of NERSC
          - Interactive SV1 response and       Jim Craw
            New Priority queues  
          - PROBE/HPSS                         Keith Fitzgerald
          - User Survey results                Francesca Verdier
10:00   Review of new allocations process      Horst Simon
          - lessons learned    

10:15   Break

10:35   NERSC-3 status / plans                 Bill Kramer
11:35   New Building                           Bill Kramer
11:45   Next Greenbook (user requirements)     Bas Braams
          - lessons learned from last time
          - plan for next time

12:15   Lunch served

12:45   Washington news / SSI                  Tom Kitchens
          (lunch talk)

 1:15   LINUX cluster activities and           Craig Tull
          plans at NERSC   
 2:15   DOC/DOE Security Regulations and       Sandy Merola
          possible effect on NERSC users

 3:00   Break

 3:20   Next Generation Internet               Bob Lucas
 3:30   NERSC's Scientific Computing Group     Esmond Ng
 4:00   New user group charter and elections   Bas Braams
 4:30   Other business                         Bas Braams
 5:00   Meeting adjourns

Please send comments and questions to Bas Braams, ERSUG Chair, braams@courant.nyu.edu.