November 2011 - Physics-Departmental-Computing

Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] FW: Computing committee meeting Wednesday 30 November
by David Colling 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hi Harry, This is a good point. I am forwarding this to the list to see how many people it effects. I also need confirm the arrangements for my own children. Please let me know if this means you will not be able to make the meeting. Best, david On 21/11/11 10:21, Vine, Harry A wrote: > Hi David, > Wednesday 30^th November. > Do you wish to suggest changing the date of our Computing Committee > meeting as some may not be here and those with children may have to be > away because of school closures suggest definetely check again with Kenny > /-//Trade unions have called a collective day of strike action on 30 > November, warning the government that Britain faces the "biggest > mobilisation in a generation" unless ministers rethink "hugely damaging" > changes to public sector pension schemes./ > /Up to 3 million public sector workers, including nurses, teachers and > careworkers, are expected to take part in industrial action, with at > least 14 unions committed to strikes over government pension reforms./ > Best wishes > Harry > -----Original Message----- > From: physics-departmental-computing-bounces(a)imperial.ac.uk > [mailto:physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] On Behalf > Of David Colling > Sent: 08 November 2011 09:52 > To: Weir, Kenny > Cc: physics-departmental-computing; Williams, Matthew A; Roberts, Chris > Subject: Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Computing committee meeting > Thanks Kenny, > Lets make the date Wednesday the 30th of November at 12:30. I will book > a location (I expect it will Blackett 532 but will check when I get back > from Brussels tonight). > Best, > david > On 07/11/11 15:53, Weir, Kenny wrote: >> Dear David, >> >> My apologies that I hadn't responded to your request. >> >> At present I can make either of the dates you suggest. >> >> Regards, >> >> Kenny >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David Colling [mailto:d.colling@imperial.ac.uk] >> Sent: 07 November 2011 14:53 >> To: physics-departmental-computing; Weir, Kenny; Roberts, Chris; > Williams, Matthew A >> Subject: Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Computing committee meeting >> >> Hi All, >> >> The doodle poll has either Monday the 14th or Wednesday the 30th as the >> clear winners. I have a slight preference for Wednesday the 30th but can >> manage either. However there is no reply from Kenny Weir and I think >> that we need Kenny (or somebody to represent him) for the machine room >> update. >> >> So Kenny, can you make either of these dates? >> >> Best, >> david >> >> >> On 01/11/11 21:24, David Colling wrote: >> > Dear All, >> > >> > I think that now the start of term is a distant memory and Christmas is >> > not yet in our sites, we should have a Physics Computing Committee > meeting. >> > >> > I have created a doodle poll at http://www.doodle.com/nhkdwga64sh926ig >> > >> > Clearly meeting times evolve and so I would rather have this meeting as >> > soon as is reasonable so that people don't become unfree on days when >> > they have said that they are free. The meeting will be held at lunchtime >> > (I am easy as to whether we start 12:10 or 12:30 we can discuss). I >> > would like to keep this reasonably short but I think that we actually >> > have quite a few things that I would like to cover this meeting - so a >> > business like approach will be essential. These include: >> > >> > - Actions arising - I wouldn't normally explicitly add this but there >> > are quite a lot from the previous meeting! >> > >> > - Status and plans for the Huxley machine room replacement. I have cc'ed >> > Kenny specifically for this item so we shall try to do it early in the >> > agenda. >> > >> > - Security (similarly early in the agenda). Chris Roberts gave a talk to >> > the faculty IT committee and I think that something similar would be >> > useful here. Matthew Williams is taking over the security brief (along >> > with others that he has) from Chris. I have cc'ed both on this mail but >> > have only asked Matthew in advance (sorry Chris). >> > >> > - Data preservation and access. This is becoming increasingly important >> > in RCUK policy and is something that we have to make sure that we comply >> > with. I will post the RCUK rules in an appropriate place (see some >> > comments below). >> > >> > - A report on the current discussions of the computing part of the >> > teaching review. This will be very limited as it is far from finalised >> > but it will be good to get informal feedback from this group. It is of >> > course up to other bodies to ultimately decide what happens here and so >> > this will be informal. >> > >> > - Lecture theatre AV facilities >> > >> > - Then there will agenda items suggested by others - please send items >> > that you want discussed. >> > >> > - The perennial items (ICT status and plans, group round up etc) >> > >> > Vivienne has sent me the minutes of the previous meeting. I would like >> > to post these and other documents on a web site rather than fill >> > everybody's inbox. We used to have a web page for the departmental >> > computing committee (which was rather out of date) but this has >> > disappeared - or rather I cannot find it any more. Does it make sense to >> > move this to sharepoint or would people rather see the old website >> > resurrected? >> > >> > Best, >> > david >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list >> > Physics-Departmental-Computing(a)imperial.ac.uk >> > https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing >> > _______________________________________________ > Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list > Physics-Departmental-Computing(a)imperial.ac.uk > https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing

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FW: Reboot of iclic10
by Mannall, Adrian B 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

All, A reboot of the license server ICLIC10 is planned on Tuesday 29th between 08.30 and 09.00. This falls in Imperial's standard "Network at Risk" period and thus should not cause any major issue. While the server is rebooted the FlexLM license manager for the FoNS 5 seat floating license compiler will be unavailable, but the downtime should be short and we expect no issues. Kind regards Adrian Adrian Mannall Faculty IT Manager Faculty of Natural Sciences ICT, Imperial College London South Kensington Campus 323, Wolfson (Biochemistry) Building, Exhibition Road London SW7 2AZ Direct Dial Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 1441 College Ext'n: 41441 Mobile: +44 (0)7834 083134 Mobile Ext'n: 57974 Email: a.mannall(a)imperial.ac.uk Web : http://www.imperial.ac.uk/ -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:59 AM To: IT Services, Faculty Support Managers; IT Services, Faculty Support Site Managers Subject: Reboot of iclic10 We need to reboot iclic10 between 8:30 and 9am on Tuesday 29th Nov to install new Dongle drivers so that we can run a new version of infoworks. Please find attached the relevant change request and also a list of the services affected. If you know of any reasons why we can't do this on Tuesday morning can you let me know so that we can re-schedule.

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Questions for the meeting between Jo Haigh and the Director of ICT (John Shemilt)
by David Colling 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Dear Physics Computing people, Tomorrow is the roughly annual meeting between our HoD and the Director of ICT. This role has changed from being Arthur Spirling to John Shemilt in the last year. I go along to these meetings and generally put the concerns and questions that people have to the Director. Do people have specific questions or queries or concerns or anything else? The meeting is at 11am and I have another meeting at 10am tomorrow so please get try to get questions to me by ~10 am if you can. Best, david

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Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Computing committee meeting
by David Colling 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Thanks Kenny, Lets make the date Wednesday the 30th of November at 12:30. I will book a location (I expect it will Blackett 532 but will check when I get back from Brussels tonight). Best, david On 07/11/11 15:53, Weir, Kenny wrote: > Dear David, > > My apologies that I hadn't responded to your request. > > At present I can make either of the dates you suggest. > > Regards, > > Kenny > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Colling [mailto:d.colling@imperial.ac.uk] > Sent: 07 November 2011 14:53 > To: physics-departmental-computing; Weir, Kenny; Roberts, Chris; Williams, Matthew A > Subject: Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Computing committee meeting > > Hi All, > > The doodle poll has either Monday the 14th or Wednesday the 30th as the > clear winners. I have a slight preference for Wednesday the 30th but can > manage either. However there is no reply from Kenny Weir and I think > that we need Kenny (or somebody to represent him) for the machine room > update. > > So Kenny, can you make either of these dates? > > Best, > david > > > On 01/11/11 21:24, David Colling wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I think that now the start of term is a distant memory and Christmas is >> not yet in our sites, we should have a Physics Computing Committee meeting. >> >> I have created a doodle poll at http://www.doodle.com/nhkdwga64sh926ig >> >> Clearly meeting times evolve and so I would rather have this meeting as >> soon as is reasonable so that people don't become unfree on days when >> they have said that they are free. The meeting will be held at lunchtime >> (I am easy as to whether we start 12:10 or 12:30 we can discuss). I >> would like to keep this reasonably short but I think that we actually >> have quite a few things that I would like to cover this meeting - so a >> business like approach will be essential. These include: >> >> - Actions arising - I wouldn't normally explicitly add this but there >> are quite a lot from the previous meeting! >> >> - Status and plans for the Huxley machine room replacement. I have cc'ed >> Kenny specifically for this item so we shall try to do it early in the >> agenda. >> >> - Security (similarly early in the agenda). Chris Roberts gave a talk to >> the faculty IT committee and I think that something similar would be >> useful here. Matthew Williams is taking over the security brief (along >> with others that he has) from Chris. I have cc'ed both on this mail but >> have only asked Matthew in advance (sorry Chris). >> >> - Data preservation and access. This is becoming increasingly important >> in RCUK policy and is something that we have to make sure that we comply >> with. I will post the RCUK rules in an appropriate place (see some >> comments below). >> >> - A report on the current discussions of the computing part of the >> teaching review. This will be very limited as it is far from finalised >> but it will be good to get informal feedback from this group. It is of >> course up to other bodies to ultimately decide what happens here and so >> this will be informal. >> >> - Lecture theatre AV facilities >> >> - Then there will agenda items suggested by others - please send items >> that you want discussed. >> >> - The perennial items (ICT status and plans, group round up etc) >> >> Vivienne has sent me the minutes of the previous meeting. I would like >> to post these and other documents on a web site rather than fill >> everybody's inbox. We used to have a web page for the departmental >> computing committee (which was rather out of date) but this has >> disappeared - or rather I cannot find it any more. Does it make sense to >> move this to sharepoint or would people rather see the old website >> resurrected? >> >> Best, >> david >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list >> Physics-Departmental-Computing(a)imperial.ac.uk >> https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing >

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Computing committee meeting
by David Colling 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Dear All, I think that now the start of term is a distant memory and Christmas is not yet in our sites, we should have a Physics Computing Committee meeting. I have created a doodle poll at http://www.doodle.com/nhkdwga64sh926ig Clearly meeting times evolve and so I would rather have this meeting as soon as is reasonable so that people don't become unfree on days when they have said that they are free. The meeting will be held at lunchtime (I am easy as to whether we start 12:10 or 12:30 we can discuss). I would like to keep this reasonably short but I think that we actually have quite a few things that I would like to cover this meeting - so a business like approach will be essential. These include: - Actions arising - I wouldn't normally explicitly add this but there are quite a lot from the previous meeting! - Status and plans for the Huxley machine room replacement. I have cc'ed Kenny specifically for this item so we shall try to do it early in the agenda. - Security (similarly early in the agenda). Chris Roberts gave a talk to the faculty IT committee and I think that something similar would be useful here. Matthew Williams is taking over the security brief (along with others that he has) from Chris. I have cc'ed both on this mail but have only asked Matthew in advance (sorry Chris). - Data preservation and access. This is becoming increasingly important in RCUK policy and is something that we have to make sure that we comply with. I will post the RCUK rules in an appropriate place (see some comments below). - A report on the current discussions of the computing part of the teaching review. This will be very limited as it is far from finalised but it will be good to get informal feedback from this group. It is of course up to other bodies to ultimately decide what happens here and so this will be informal. - Lecture theatre AV facilities - Then there will agenda items suggested by others - please send items that you want discussed. - The perennial items (ICT status and plans, group round up etc) Vivienne has sent me the minutes of the previous meeting. I would like to post these and other documents on a web site rather than fill everybody's inbox. We used to have a web page for the departmental computing committee (which was rather out of date) but this has disappeared - or rather I cannot find it any more. Does it make sense to move this to sharepoint or would people rather see the old website resurrected? Best, david

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