November 8, 2010 Meeting Agenda

1. Research Computing Committee's role in proposed OIT governance structure
   Current update on OIT governance planning

2. OIT HPC status update
   2010 Annual Report
   HPC use by Colleges FY2011 year to date highlights:
   New Computational Scientist - Jianwei Dian
   New Storage System - SONAS
   Progress - but still no network connection to MCNC for HPC backups
   Data Center Capacity
   

3. Charging model for HPC partner storage
   previous approach: individual storage systems for each partner
   new approach: shared scalable storage system

4. Accounting treatment of HPC partner purchases of cluster nodes

5. HPC hardware needs assessment
   GPUs, low latency interconnect, higher bandwidth to storage, more scratch storage, ...

6. Review of committee operating procedures - selection of chair