Notes for Hoffmann cluster researchers

Upcoming to do's for your researchers:

(1) Ensure researchers' user data on Sol can be completely deleted.

• We will be deleting all the home directories. (They were originally copied there as a testing convenience during our test phase.)
• We do this to enable a clean import of researchers' current production home directories from Helios.
• Lulu has advised them of this from before the Thanksgiving break, so hopefully no surprises.
• Bottom line: If there are any files on Sol which researchers cannot afford to lose (hopefully not- it was in test mode, and it's not being backed up!), researchers must move that data to Helios right away (deadline?).
  

2) After a predetermined date, researchers will not have access to Sol until it is again ready for testing.

Sol will need to be turned off and worked on by us. (Approximate duration?) Therefore, it will be off-line to researcher.

Ad hoc permission to select researches (Prasad?) will be granted so they may install and test their software.

Tasks for us to do:

* Get the server's versioning hard disk recognized within the new head node.

* Lulu to install the Intel compiler in the /software/ directory, with the proper licensing.

* Your group (Prasad?) to install the Materials Studio software in the /data/ Hoffmann/bin/ directory. If Prasad is not available to do this, let's discuss our options- thank you.

3) Researchers will be asked to test select software on Sol.

Changes to where the Intel compiler and Materials Studio reside (to facilitated debugging and support) must be confirmed to work for researchers.

Again we are testing on Sol. Thus, the only production work should still be on Helios, not Sol.

Oliver's quick notes:

11/15/13, from email sent to Roald, by Oliver:

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