2016 PDSF User Meeting Minutes

December 13 :  SLIDES

 Attending: Craig, Yuen-Dat, Jan

November 8 :  SLIDES

 Attending: Jeff, Yuen-Dat, Jan

October 11 :  [slides]

Attending

Ernst,Yuen-Dat, Jan

Decisions/suggestions

• PDSF utilization was studied 

September 6 ,  [Slides]

Attending

Jeff, Mustafa,  Jan 

Decisions/suggestions

• PDSF interactive nodes will be reduced from 6 to 3 on September 8, 11 am PDT. The 3 nodes will be added back to the job pool.

August 9 ,  [slides] 

Attending

Jeff, Jochen,Yuen-Dat, Craig, Jerome (phone),  Jan

Decisions/suggestions

• PDSF batch: investigate increase of the queue size to 50k jobs
• reduce 6 interactive nodes to 3
• monitor load & connectivity per node,  portal: URL
• inform users about intended limits of use of interactive nodes
• prepare to tag& kill jobs from users exceeding the limits, to be implemented in a month
• proceed  with dedicated Shifter images for DayaBay

July 12 , [slides]

Attending

Jeff, Jochen, Ernst, Mustafa, Yuen-Dat, Jan

Decisions/suggestions

• keep 6 interactive nodes until ganglia plots are inspected
• pilot work with dedicated Shifter images for various experiments will proceed 

July 12 , [slides]

Attending

Jeff, Jochen, Ernst, Mustafa, Yuen-Dat, Jan

Decisions/suggestions

• keep 6 interactive nodes until ganglia plots are inspected
• pilot work with dedicated Shifter images for various experiments will proceed 
• explore deploying Shifter on one Mendel node for testing
• criteria defining aggressive users will be reviewed by steering committee, a passive monitoring script will be deployed

June 7 [slides]

Attending 

Jan