- Physics-Departmental-Computing

this morning - points for meeting with ICT
by David Colling 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Dear Physics Computing, Just a reminder that Jo and I will be meeting with ICT today at lunchtime. So anything that you want me to bring up with them (the good, the bad and the not so pretty) will all be welcome. It is as good to feedback things that you find good as it is to feed back things that you find not so good. Best, david

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Agenda for today's meeting
by David Colling 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Hi All, I have been underwhelmed with agenda items so I hope that today's meeting will e short, however i think that it is probably still worth us meeting up for continuity. Location Room 532 Blackett, time 12:30 Things i think that we should cover: - Teaching, o years 1 and 2 o computational Physics (Robert sends his apologies) o project resources - Licensing (do we have anything to discuss here or are we now happy?) - News from ICT (mainly covered by Adrian's email - I guess that we should go through it and see if we have any questions) - Items to discuss with ICT - AOB best, david

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Meeting tomorrow
by David Colling 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Dear All, Just a reminder that we have a meeting tomorrow. The time and location are 12;30 in room 532. I will circulate an agenda tomorrow morning. However, one item that might be worth considering in advance are items to be discussed between the HoD and ICT in a forthcoming meeting. the rest of the items on tomorrow's agenda will have no surprises. Best, david

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Items for Thursday's agenda ...
by David Colling 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Dear All, We have a meeting Thursday lunchtime. (Time and location to be confirmed, I would suggest 12:30 start unless there are objections). I will draw together an agenda, but are there things that you would like to add? Best, david

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Fwd: Home directory quota bands - clarification
by David Colling 29 Oct '13

29 Oct '13

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Home directory quota bands - clarification Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:06:04 +0000 From: Metcalfe, Christopher J <c.metcalfe(a)imperial.ac.uk> To: ICTAP Members <ccs-dept(a)imperial.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues The information I published recently regarding the changes to the new Home Directory Quota Bands has raised some comment and I undertook to clarify the situation. After discussion with ICT colleagues we now feel the information below better states the position on default quota bands and, with the examples below, also clarifies how the costs associated with changing bands will work. In response to questions, ICT is NOT at considering any further default quota limit changes at the present time. Due to the increasing complexity of managing Home Directory Quota Allowances, ICT will be introducing a simplified bands of disk quotas, based on a flat rate of £2.50 per GB, as follows: Quota Band (GB) Additional Annual Cost from Base 4GB for UGs and Service Accounts Additional Annual Cost from Base 8GB for Research / Taught PGs and Staff 4 Default – No Charge N/A 8 £10.00 Default – No Charge 12 £20.00 £10.00 16 £30.00 £20.00 20 £40.00 £30.00 *A one off fee of £10.00 will also be made to administer the change of each Quota Band request* *Departments may make a case for the quota for individual student to be increased, in these cases no additional charge will be made.* The table above reflects that the original default quota amount remains free of charge when a move to another band is made and it is only the amount over and above the default amount which will be charged (currently at £2.50 / GB). For example: A staff move from 8GB to 12GB would cost (12 - 8) x £2.50 = £10.00 per year whereas a UG move (without Dept support) from 4GB to 16GB would cost (16 – 4) x £2.50 = £30.00 per year plus in both cases a one-off Band Increase fee of £10.00 As noted previously these new quota bands and charges will come into effect from November 1^st 2013 and will be reflected in the published ICT SLA document shortly. Regards. Chris *Chris Metcalfe* *Technical Manager - Architecture** *Information and Communication Technologies Level 4, Sherfield Building Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 7286 Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 6919 E-mail: c.metcalfe(a)imperial.ac.uk <mailto:c.metcalfe@imperial.ac.uk>

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Date of next meeting
by David Colling 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Hi All, The winner of the doodle poll was Thursday the 7th of November (sorry Jing). The meeting will be at lunchtime (as usual) and I will book a room and circulate tomorrow. Best, david

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Departmental Computing meeting
by David Colling 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

Dear All, Now that term is well underway, I think that we should have a departmental computing meeting. I would like to schedule this in the next two weeks. I have created a doodle poll at http://doodle.com/fpswktqw6yh9iq96 and so I would be grateful if people could add their availability soon so that we can schedule this. Best, david

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OS X Mavericks and wireless networks
by Rochford, Steve 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

There's a bug in OS X Mavericks which is preventing it from connecting easily to wireless networks using Cisco hardware (which is what we use at Imperial) If you upgrade, you are likely to find that you cannot connect to our wireless network. You can get round this: 1. Click the Wifi icon on the menu bar, and select 'Join Other Network' 2. In the 'Find and Join a Wi-Fi network' window type in Imperial-WPA and in the security drop down select WPA2 Enterprise 3. Type in the your Imperial College username and password in the relevant fields and click 'Join' It will almost certainly lose the connection whenever the machine goes to sleep or is rebooted so you will have to go through the process each time you use the machine. We (and many others!) have logged a fault with Apple - I'm hoping that they will fix it fairly quickly - but if you've not upgraded then I'd suggest waiting a little while for the fix. Steve

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FW: ICT Domain Controller replacement work
by Mannall, Adrian B 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

For info / action. Regards Adrian From: Metcalfe, Christopher J Sent: 17 October 2013 13:13 To: ICTAP Members Subject: ICT Domain Controller replacement work Dear Colleagues Please see below for an important piece of information from ICT Technical Operations. This work was postponed from its original date of September 20th as this was felt to be too close for comfort to the start of the new Academic Year. We do however now need to progress this work so could I please ask you to ensure that this message gets sent to research groups as they may be using the ICADS1 domain controller for authentication and will need to make a change to prevent future disruption to their work. Thanks Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICT has been running a project to upgrade our domain controllers (which are responsible for authentication) from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012. We are now near the end of this and are looking to remove one of our domain controllers called ICADS1, this is a server that has been around for a long time, and we are aware that some people might be using this in their authentication configuration. Please can you publicise and communicate that our preferred alternative authentication address is the following; ICADSLDAP.ic.ac.uk This is a load balanced address that means which means that once this is configured, it will not need to be changed in the future and it will improve performance as you will not suffer any interruption to your system if an individual server goes down. If you find that this does not work, then please let us know and we will provide you with an alternative solution. We plan on powering down ICADS1 at 10am on Wednesday October 30th, to help identify any systems that are using this, if this causes you any issues, then please contact the ICT Service Desk and we will work with you to quickly resolve this. Chris Metcalfe Technical Manager - Architecture Information and Communication Technologies Level 4, Sherfield Building Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 7286 Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 6919 E-mail: c.metcalfe(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:c.metcalfe@imperial.ac.uk>

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Physics Departmental Computing Web Pages - yes we do have some!
by David Colling 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

Dear All, Caroline has produced some departmental computing web pages for us. These can be found at : http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/physics/staff/computing I think that these are pretty jolly good, although I have only had a quick look at them. Please have a look and if you have any thoughts or suggestions then please give us feedback. Best, david

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