* * * Next Meeting is on Wed 11am, 17th July 9E Meeting room * * *
What
With the commissioning of new super-computer ngamai, BoM's current solar
supercomputer will be scheduled for removal.
This project covers migration of ACCESS-CAWCR-BoM (ESM) NWP applications to ngamai.
Part of the task include reporting, documentation and resource planning.
People
People:
CAWCR: mjn, rab, azs, ilia, yix, wenming,Zhihong Li
Tan Le,Tim Pugh, Chris Tingwell, Martin Dix
NMOC: jrf, ivor, joan
Related Groups:
-- High level ngamai porting planning group
-- NMOC operational porting activity
-- /apps system team
-- nci/raijin access porting activity
-- Other porting groups ( poama, oceans, bluelink .... ).
Time Frame
Contractual deadline for solar is 1st Nov 2013
Overrunning the deadline will have severe cost to BoM.
There is need for timely reporting to higher management, especially in relation to resourcing aspects, and risks of meeting time deadlines.
The key systems for solar switch off are operational systems; CAWCR research will also be expected to be moved off solar by the same time.
First Meeting was on Wed 11am, 10th July 10E Meeting room.
Present: Ilia, Mike Naughton, Robin, Tan Le, Chis Tingwell, Wenming, Jim, Ivor.
Apologies: Joan, Xiao, Tim Pugh, Martin Dix.
Issues and Task List
No.
ITEM
STATUS/COMMENTS
Contact Person
1
Oracle Handover of Ngamai to BoM
Done on 27th June
rab
2
30 Days Ngamai Acceptance test
Commenced from handover date (end June), running a SSP mix of programs (including UM benchmark from solar. Acceptance mainly upon 30 days of running without error. No acceptance test doc. Due to complete on 4th week of July. So far there have been no problems. Side note: So far Raijin have been found to be slower than solar for UM using equivalent number of cores/config
rab
3
Logins for initial BoM users
/apps group only at this stage. Decided to rebuild /apps using v12 compilers as compared to v13 on yambuk. Ongoing work.
/apps group, rab
4
Ngamai Configuration
Linux 6.2 Will be identical to solar, but with newer s/w versions. Generally, all s/w on solar, there will be equivalent on ngamai, but no older version unless necessary. File system setup is similar, different h/w namespaces. There will be filesystem quota.
rab
5
Logins for CAWCR/NMOC migration team
No status yet as of 12/7/2013
rab
6
Intel compiler 11.0.83
Strong need, but not straightforward to provide. This may be a difficult issue. Two prong approach is advised.
ilia,rab, group
7
Source Code for UM
Migrate SVN repository mirror from solar
azs
8
Source Code for VAR
Migrate SVN repository from solar
azs
9
Source Code for OPS
Migrate SVN repository from solar
azs
10
Source Code for SURF
Migrate SVN repository from solar
azs
11
~access directory
Copy solar's to "from_solar" on ngamai. Move to proper place as we go along. Improve where suitable. Interoperability with raijin is important consideration and should be done where possible.
access.admin
12
GCOM Libraries
Decide naming strategy, identify required versions/compile options, Synchronise with Raijin
access.admin, azs,ilia,Martin
13
Migrate Trac databases
Cutover from solar to ngamai at appropriate time
azs
14
UM Small execs
Comments
Who?
15
Migrate UMUI, VARUI & OPSUI
Comments
Who?
16
CAPS program on ngamai
Comments
Who?
17
Re-compile/build UM 7.5/7.6 Executables for APS1 - Global, Regional, Access-C ...
Documentation of build procedure
group, azs
18
MARS archiving scripts
Comments
ttl
19
Porting/Migration website
Use NCI access trac. Need NCI userid for everyone
Porting Group
20
Web serving and documentation from ngamai
Comment
rab/Porting Group
21
fcm utility
Comment
Who
22
Miscellaneous utilities used by ACCESS systems
Comment
Who
23
profile.gen.access
Should be in /access/scripts, not in /access
Who
24
UM Ancillaries input data
Comments
Who
25
Misc UM parameter files
Comments
Who
26
APS1 suite
Comments
Who
27
APS2 suite
Comments
Who
28
ACCESS systems/suites not synchronous with operational system
Will not be able to address this as part of porting project. Will need to wait until APS3 ROSE based systems. In the meantime, better documentation will help, also better source code tracking/building procedure
Who
29
STASHMaster File Regression
Not possible. Must be due to misunderstanding/mistake
Who
30
NCI Training course on 22nd July
Not that relevant to experienced users.
Who
31
Back copy of solar files prior to its decommisioning.
Easy to do.
Who
32
$CWSHARE
Will still be required, though most shared scripts and utilities will be in /access/bin or /access/scripts.
Who
33
Suites/Applications to work regardless of user's default login shell and environment
Desirable.
Who
34
Higher management's Porting plan
Will be of help for our reference
Who
98
Any other business
Comments
Who
99
More Other Issues/Dependencies
Comments
Who
Next Meeting is on Wed 11am, 17th July 9E Meeting room.
[Fri 5/7/2013] azs: initial skeleton page
[Mon 15/7/2013] azs: Updates with notes from 1st Meeting on Wed 10/7/2013.