Illinois Campus Cluster Program User Forum January 24, 2012 Illini Union Room :00 AM - Noon

Welcome and Agenda Governance Update Golub Deployment Schedule (Taub Impact) GPFS Improvement User Forum Electronic Board User Survey Open Discussion Adjourn

Governance Update Chair of Investor Forum elected – Jonathan Greenberg – In the process of scheduling second investor forum meeting Investor’s upcoming decisions, for example: – Bringing up the new file storage system – Scratch space – Snapshots Getting Nominations for the Executive Governance Committee

Golub Deployment Schedule Installation Timeline under development. Two known Taub outages – Converting over to Master Node ( 1 day) – Storage System ( 1-4 days) As Outage times become known, they will be shared with the User Community.

GPFS Improvements coming with Golub Moving from GPS 3.4 to GPS 3.5 Functionality includes: – High Performance Extended Attributes – Independent File sets File set Level Snapshots File set Level Quotas – File Cloning

User Forum Electronic Board Bulletin Board Went Live on December 10, 2012 From the Illinois campus Cluster Web Page, click on FORUM. Community growing, at 69 users.

User Survey Survey’s Objective: – assessment of how things are going for everyone – indications of what are the important capabilities and services offered – suggestions for improvements to the environment and the supporting services. Current User Survey is available until January 31, 2013 and takes about 10 minutes. The survey is at: Summary results of this survey will be provided to you all via the electronic forums for the Illinois Campus Cluster.

Open Discussion This is your opportunity to share with the Illinois Campus Cluster Program Team your thoughts. Drawing a blank? Think about: – What do you like about the campus cluster? – What areas of the campus cluster program needs improvement? – What things have you not quite figured out? – What do you spend most of your time doing when using the campus cluster? – What training do you wish was available? Next meeting – when?

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