Meeting Notes for 9 Jun 2010

Common

• Dale had some notes about the use of the forum
• Systems were overloaded with analyses last week - someone tried to run 5GB datasets.
  • Some of the cluster nodes ran out of drive space
    • Possibly should remove the GUI from the compute nodes - all those applications take up a couple gigabytes of space
  • Solution is more compute power.
    • May decommission some of the old nodes when we get new machines
  • Deprioritize large jobs?

Cosmic

• We automatically delete old analyses after two weeks of inactivity now

CMS

• Do we allow students to specify their own bin widths?
  • Yes - Mihael wants students to consciously select binning. No automagic selection when zooming in
  • Poses the question on what a bin is? What's good bin-width?
• Milestones
  • Study documents to put together
  • Holding off on a fourth milestone
  • Try and make them less prescriptive?
• Ken's screencasts in progress
• Mihael needs ROOT and IG data
  • Ask Dave Barney for data? Bit of a crunch right now
  • Can we add after the due date?
• Think-Aloud
• Question on style of instruction? How much do we tell the student ahead of time / guide?
• Remember, we have NSF-reviewer instructions

LIGO

• Super-Bluestone is functioning and saving plots.
  • Some caching issues ongoing with regard to the global min/max times, investigating
  • Look-and-feel integration in progress
    • Integrate with the LIGO L&F
    • Make the generated plots look something like the flot output
  • Hoping to get it merged into production codebase as a Bluestone v1 alternative for better testing
  • More IE testing