PTP/meetings/scalability/20120112

January 12, 2012 Scalability Meeting

Date: January 12, 2012 Time: 10:00 AM EST

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Attendees

• Greg Watson, IBM
• Dave Wootton, IBM
• Claudia Knobloch, Juelich
• Wolfgang Frings, Juelich
• Jay Alameda, NCSA
• Chris Navarro, NCSA
• Jeff Overbey, NCSA

Minutes

1. Status Reports
   • Juelich
     • Filtering committed, fixing a bug
     • Node display to be committed next week
     • Looking at table view again
     • Updated LML DA driver 1.14 checked in, added debugging functionality
     • Added GridEngine support to LML DA driver
     • Working on TORQUE_ALPS support for Cray
     • Working on BG/Q + JAXB. Need to resolve legal issues of using SQL statements for querying DB directly. Greg to check with IBM.
   • IBM
     • Implementations for PE JAXB RM are complete for job submitting
     • Run into problem with monitoring side, working on that
     • ORLN contract finalized
   • NCSA
     • Modules support to the point where it's possible to select modules
     • Submitted abstract to Cray user group
     • Tutorial at Software Engineering at UCAR
2. Potential Future Work Areas Discussion
   • Improvements to LML/UI
     • more flexibility in jobs tables (current)
     • customization of system layout (current)
     • level of detail (current)
     • stability (current)
     • prediction & adapting other monitoring sources
     • diagrams and other features available in LML
     • visualization of logical structure of network/system
   • Improvements to DA
     • redesign DA driver (current)
     • table driven batch system/runtime selection
     • able to supply job/node/sys commands from XML
     • use Al's XML to drive rms scripts or upload perl?
     • generalize merging other data into LML
   • Fixes to batch interactive submission
     • need pre-launch actions
     • change job resubmission to use context menu
   • Debugging support
     • debugger has languished for some years
     • many areas that could benefit from improvements
3. Other Business
   • None
4. Meeting adjourned; Next meeting Jan 19, 2012 to be announced on ptp-scaling list.