itaps-parallel Mesh machine turning off this wed

[Tim Tautges]

That's certainly possible, and it sounds like everyone wants that.  I go 
down to ANL tonight for two days, and I was planning on taking the 
machine down with me, but now I'll leave it here.

Now, are we certain our tutorial room will have network access?  I 
hadn't planned for that, so haven't requested it in terms of tutorial 
resources.  In fact, I was planning on bringing a wireless access point 
for attendees to use for accessing the machine that's there.

- tim

Lori A. Diachin wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I had always thought that the mesh machine was going to stay at 
> Wisconsin, and we would be remotely logging in - I didn't know the plan 
> was to take it to SC.  I share Karen's and others' concerns that we have 
> access to the machine itself for testing for the hands on.  Based on my 
> experience with the ANL booth, we will not have access to the machine 
> until Saturday at the earliest, and maybe not until Sunday.  This will 
> be too late for effective testing as many of us are traveling on 
> Saturday and the tutorial is on Sunday.  Is it too late to keep the mesh 
> machine at Wisconsin as our primary tutorial machine and replicate the 
> source on a second, back up machine, that travels to SC in case the 
> network is not stable on Sunday for remote log ins?   I think the back 
> up machine that travels, will necessarily have fewer (probably simpler) 
> examples..
> 
> Lori
> 
> 
> At 02:24 PM 10/28/2008, Devine, Karen D wrote:
>> Hi, Tim.  Thanks for your reply.  One concern is that we do final 
>> testing of
>> the examples on the machine that we will actually use in the tutorial.  I
>> did not realize Argonne was taking a truck to SC!  Will they have the 
>> mesh
>> machine set up on a network during the workweek before SC so that we can
>> re-run our final tests there?  We will look bad if we have to 
>> troubleshoot
>> problems (paths, installations, incompatibilities, etc.) during the
>> tutorial.
>>
>> Karen
>>
>> On 10/28/08 12:36 PM, "Tim Tautges" <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm considering having Jason make his machine available for itaps 
>> people
>> > for testing/development and taking the mesh machine down to SC.  Does
>> > anyone (Lori?) know how many tutorial attendees we may have?  Depending
>> > on the number, we could fit them on a single machine.
>> >
>> > The issue of damage to the machine shouldn't be significant, ANL is
>> > sending a truck down, and I'm guessing there's a lot more important
>> > equipment in there that they're counting on making it down there.
>> >
>> > - tim
>> >
>> > Devine, Karen D wrote:
>> >> Tim:
>> >>
>> >> Based on the responses from the people developing examples, taking 
>> the mesh
>> >> machine away would be detrimental to our ability to have good 
>> examples for
>> >> SC08.  Ting is working hard to perfect her iMeshP implementation, 
>> as we
>> >> exercise features and uncover issues.  Vitus and I are updating our 
>> examples
>> >> as the FMDB implementation matures.  Ryan needs time to port and 
>> test his
>> >> examples.  We also need time for the guinea pigs to walk through the
>> >> examples on the machine, to ensure that they really work and make 
>> sense.
>> >> And we still need ParaView to be installed on the machine (can one 
>> of your
>> >> sysadmins do that for us?).
>> >>
>> >> In short, we need a Plan B.  Using remote log-ins from SC08 to 
>> Wisconsin is
>> >> the best plan I can think of.  This plan allows us to continue 
>> working on
>> >> the implementations and examples, removes the risk of damage to the 
>> machine
>> >> during transit, and eliminates the need for you to set up the 
>> machine on
>> >> SC's network on, presumably, Saturday.  It does have drawbacks, 
>> with slower
>> >> connection speeds and the need for a Wisconsin person to be on call 
>> for
>> >> reboots.
>> >>
>> >> What ideas do you have?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >> Karen
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 10/27/08 12:15 PM, "Tim Tautges" <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi all,
>> >>>    I'll be turning off the mesh machine this Wed and taking it 
>> down to
>> >>> ANL for shipment to SC.  So, all software should be on that 
>> machine by
>> >>> then.  The machine has a cd drive and usb, so you can also bring 
>> it for
>> >>> installation at SC, but no guarantees things will work well that way.
>> >>>
>> >>> - tim
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> ================================================================
>> >>> "You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is
>> >>>    steadfast, because he trusts in you."               Isaiah 26:3
>> >>>
>> >>>               Tim Tautges            Argonne National Laboratory
>> >>>           (tautges at mcs.anl.gov)      (telecommuting from UW-Madison)
>> >>>           phone: (608) 263-8485      1500 Engineering Dr.
>> >>>             fax: (608) 263-4499      Madison, WI 53706
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > --
>> > ================================================================
>> > "You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is
>> >    steadfast, because he trusts in you."               Isaiah 26:3
>> >
>> >               Tim Tautges            Argonne National Laboratory
>> >           (tautges at mcs.anl.gov)      (telecommuting from UW-Madison)
>> >           phone: (608) 263-8485      1500 Engineering Dr.
>> >             fax: (608) 263-4499      Madison, WI 53706
>> >
>> >
>> >
> 
> 

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"You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is
   steadfast, because he trusts in you."               Isaiah 26:3

              Tim Tautges            Argonne National Laboratory
          (tautges at mcs.anl.gov)      (telecommuting from UW-Madison)
          phone: (608) 263-8485      1500 Engineering Dr.
            fax: (608) 263-4499      Madison, WI 53706