First General Meeting

Sep 29, 2016

Cyberinfrastructure Association

Meeting Agenda

  1. Call to Order

  2. Roll Call
    • Officers present: Matthew Whitlock (President), Brandon White (Treasurer), Cameron Mehmken (Membership Chair)
    • Total Present: 10
    • Slack sign up:
  3. Open Issues:
    • Election of Hardware and Software team leaders
    • Meeting frequency - team leaders will coordinate meetings outside of general meeting times
    • Elections on Slack? Or at the meetings?
    • Orange Pi alternative for hardware - Brandon composed a detailed spec sheet comparing a few board options
    • Virtual machine for software - could look at setting up a training session to get experience with virtual machines
  4. New Business
    1. HPC Training Session
      • Goals and dates
      • HPCC New User Training Session - November 11 at 4 p.m. in MSCS 514 - sign up on Slack
    2. Cluster competitions
      • Tulsa HPC competition - probably the easiest one to compete in, location & requirements
      • SC17 - here is information about SC16’s competition and team guidelines - probably won’t be ready for SC17, but good to keep in mind and maybe use as motivation to start preparing for SC18
    3. Call for further topics - Discussion
      • None
  5. Adjournment