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<h1  style="text-align: center; color: green"> CAWCR-BoM ACCESS NWP Ngamai Migration Working Group</h1>

Meeting 13: Wednesday 30th October 2013, 10E Meeting Room

Present: Joerg Henrichs, Ed Habjan, Wenming Lu, Jim Fraser, Chris Tingwell, Robin Bowen, Asri Sulaiman, Ilia Bermous

Apologies: Yi Xiao, Michael Naughton, Martin Dix, Joan Fernon, Zhihong Li

• Items from previous meeting notes
• AOB

• MARS-1 now running fine.
• Full set of fields are being archived to MARS-1 from Access-G
• Reduced set of fields from Access-R
• Archiving of fields from Access-C to start soon
• No status on new/additional tape drives for MARS-1
• ACTION: Continue monitoring

• Post processing task being turned on

• no plots yet

• Plan to try and make ngamai AG1 operational by next week.

• Looks too ambitious at this stage

• Ngamai have not been declared operational yet

• Meeting this afternoon

• Re Gary's plots: grand plans with lots of additional diagnostics being considered

• work in progress

• Chris now running development APS1 Access-G suite on ngamai

• Elapse times have slowed slightly with increased disk i/o load on ngamai (resulting from more post-processing tasks turned on).
• Development AR1 starting soon.
• AG and AR to be true real-time by tomorrow (currently delayed by 4 hrs)

• Now running routinely..
• Wenming plotting tasks have started running from 27th Oct. Output on the Web.
• Near real-time

• Slightly delayed due to NSW fires.
• Today's 18z AG-0 is likely the very last run.
• Joan have sent email to all stake holders.
• No issues expected.

• Joan started looking at ATC1
• Martin's "Big Domain" reconfiguration to be implemented after Xiao's back from leave

• The new virtual server is now available, but not fully set up yet.
• Currently SMS controlling ngamai suites are running on twister.
• FUSE (allowing real time viewing of stdout/stderr) will only be available on the new server.

• Implemented with modest standard quota (For details see http://ngamai.bom.gov.au/~jjm/quotas.html )
• There is scope for users with need to ask for bigger quota.

• Can now be closed after very satisfactory conclusion.

• Continue regular reminder to users to test the applications they use.

• Issues have been fixed as they are discovered.

• Email address for issues is CAWCR access ( [email protected] )

• Change the group name "access" to "access.admin" to make it the same as at NCI

• No problem expected as gid (group-id) will remain the same

• Need to coordinate when to do it.

• CLOSE. Successful conclusion

• CLOSE. No follow up needed.

• Work in progress. Wenming following up with Martin.

• Need to identify staff to work on Raijin's version
  • Chris Bridge is tied up with Ngamai operational porting and will not be available.
• Documentation on install of Ngamai's verify - http://nmoc-svnop.bom.gov.au:8080/projects/modules/wiki/Verify201Install6

• Robin to continue sending weekly emails
• Load on solar currently still high with some users saying they are finishing in the next 1-2 weeks.
• November is critical month for switching over of NMOC's operational suites.
• Until raijin is fully setup, some specific research work may be run on ngamai.

• Initial Build documentation page ( https://trac.nci.org.au/trac/access/wiki/Access_NWP_Build_Procedures ) now have documentation on all relevant access executables used in APS1

• To develop further...

  • verifications by peer
  • Test run jobs.
  • ...

• Ilia to test executable built on rajin, run on ngamai to see if identical as executables build on ngamai running on raijin.

• CLOSE. No follow up required.

• NONE.

 # * * * 11am Wed 13th November 2013, 10E Meeting Room * * *

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