Term Goals Fall 2015 for Research Support and Special Projects

General environment

File storage

• Meet with Dave and Anthony to review plans for Distributed File Service - Lawrence/Lori w/Dave/Anthony - November 2015
  • Milestone: meet and make progess
  • Met Oct. 28th - made notes in ST#98307
  • Lori has updated quotes
  • Dave/Lawrence/Lori to create updated proposal for January 2016

Networking

Firewall

• Finish group consultations - Early December 2015 - Lawrence / RSG staff
  • Overall: 88134
    • -> some progress, but still a number of groups to confirm upcoming changes
  • CHIL: 99192 - Gordon
  • NPSG: 99194 - Gordon
    • met with Gladimir - 2015-11-05
  • Lori: affected systems: Syn, Daytona - currently on 26, which will only have VPN,SSH and web by default
  • Lori: Ripple - 129.97.119.223/26 (VLAN 500) - needs SSH (so ssh and web would be fine) - 102465
• Move CrySP grads to VLAN 7/26 - Gordon
  • 99187

CSCF Special Projects

• Documentation - complete list of software systems responsible by Isaac and Daniel
  • Documentation - overview, how to check their health, how to restart each of the above systems
  • Daniel's systems documented, Isaac has added links to existing documentation

CSCF internal services

Machine Rooms

DC 3556 (Research Machine Room)

• Finish Insurance Claim - November 2015 - Lawrence
  • 95303
    • submitted to insurance, awaiting final approval (and cheque!)

DC 3558 (CS Infrastructure Room)

• Move all RSG equipment out of Row B- December 2015 - Lawrence/RSG
• 101485
  • all done as of 2015-12-11

Monitoring

• Report when server hits predefined temperature limit - Gordon
  • 97155
  • Note: confirm with PLG that they're ok with them paying for it (confirmed - see ST#97155, original email from Peter asking about these sensors)
  • -> no progress

Research computing

Graduate student workstations

• Streamline the AD join process - Mike / Clayton
  • 101333
  • Milestone: revised script that works with current image for Winter 2016 post-install steps
  • Future: (Winter 2016) Update for Spring/Fall 2016 image
    • Mike says that he has done some work in improving the AD script. Need to document in above ST or note related ST

HPC

generic cluster ("paper")

• Rack hardware we have in DC 3558 A1 - Lawrence/Lori/Mike/CSCF Coop
  • 99112
  • Report time spent on this project
  • -> awaiting rack to be emptied

Ganglia Portal

• ST#98196
  • waiting on VM to be deployed (Dave - can you make that happen?)

Visitor loaner equipment / Researcher-owned machines

• Workstation imaging: Streamline via Clonezilla - Click'N'Go - Mike
  • ST#102946
  • involves Dave and Phil (See Also ST#97089 for knowledge transfer)
  • -> Mike has done a lot of work on this process and it seems to be ready, need to ensure that this is shared with Phil and integrated with their procedures
• Milestone: unclear

Administration

Billing

• Fall 2015 bills by end of November
  • not yet done, needs to happen very soon
• Future: Dave would like Winter bills done by late January/early February

Research Groups

AI

• Setup guest computers - Mike
  • Mike has worked with John (our co-op) to review existing machines and update/replace as needed

BIF

• rebuild m160 File storage - Fall 2015 - Mike / Lori
  • Update (2015-11-05)
    • Mike has discussed with students and Ming - and they are excited to have this happen
    • need to transfer all of the data over to Asimov (or other storage server)
• memory upgrade for all of the nodes - planning to be done in November (ST#99218)
  • -> done

Boutaba

• Management of CN cluster - Ronaldo
• Documentation of CN cluster - Ronaldo
  • the above are waiting for the return of one of KEshav's grad students away Fall 2016, returning in January

Brecht

• Migrate rocket to new server - Ronaldo / Lori
  • Lori - ST#101572 - in progress

Cabernet

• Upgrade cluster OS to 14.04 (priority)
  • 100316
• Upgrade GPUs? Lori/Mike
  • 98349

Daytona

• Reorganize, add 2 nodes - December 2015 - Lori
• 100216
  • in progress, should be complete early January. Some systems blocking the expansion are being moved the week of Dec 15th

Games Institute

• Fileserver / Backup server installation - November 2015 - Lori
• 97715
  • done

HCI

• Rebuild NAS - Ronaldo
  • done

Himrod

• Monitoring/Reporting/OS imaging - Lori
  • 100652

ISS4E

• Move backup system to new hardware - Ronaldo
• Management of the servers - Ronaldo
• Documentation - Ronaldo
• Setup raindrop4.cs in ERC - Ronaldo
  • [[https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/request_debug/UpdateRequest?101439][101439
• -> done

PLG

• Grant proposal (Peter/Martin) - Gordon / Lori - October 2015
  • 100714
  • proposal submitted. Now waiting for results.

Ripple

• Hardware upgrade - reconfigure RAID (Peep) - Lori
  • completed. now more than twice as fast
• CRS - reconfigured, adding "clucks" + 40Gb switch - Lori
  • installed, re-organized into two clusters. Will configure SALT to manage systems
• 100235

SciCom

• Upgrade elora.cs to 14.04 - Mike
  • need ST item

SWAG

• Upgrade swag.cs to 14.04 - Mike
  • 99914
  • done

Watform

• Retire old servers - Ronaldo
  • done
• Documentation - Ronaldo