From: <s.tingay_at_email.protected>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:48:56 +0900

ok, that's fine. I'll shuffle the agenda a bit to leave the disk
discussion till when Matthew and Indra join.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Chris Phillips <Chris.Phillips_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au> wrote:
>>
>
>Bounced message from Matthew
>
>>Subject: Re: VLBI telecon
>>Cc: "Steven Tingay" <s.tingay_at_ivec.<!--nospam-->org>,
>>"VLBI observers" <vlbiobs_at_atnf.<!--nospam-->csiro.au>,
>>"Hayley Bignall" <h.bignall_at_curtin.<!--nospam-->edu.au>,
>>"Cormac Reynolds" <C.Reynolds_at_curtin.<!--nospam-->edu.au>,
>>"maria rioja" <mj.rioja_at_oan.<!--nospam-->es>,
>>"Claire Hotan" <C.Hotan_at_curtin.<!--nospam-->edu.au>,
>>"Jarrod Hurley" <jhurley_at_swin.<!--nospam-->edu.au>
>>
>>Dear all,
>>
>>In the short term, some of the Swinburne disks in the VLBI pool are
>>required to
>>populate two of the XRAID chassis vacated by the correlator for some
>>urgent
>>work here before Nov 15 so we can reliably stream data for P630. We need
>>4 x 500GB sets in place by then. I hadn't appreciated that the use of the
>>disks in the chassis was still required at the level that would stop them
>>being
>>populated in Nov.
>>
>>I also have some new staff who are wanting to simulate the Universe
>>"millenium
>>run style" and require lots of disk space in the future. At present the
>>server
>>room has 33% of our disk space dedicated to VLBI and the only way we can
>>meet our future needs is to use this space. This either means repopulating
>>the
>>chassis or buying new RAID systems. The latter would be a major pain.
>>
>>Can I join your telecon at ~3.15pm to discuss how this is all going to
>>work?
>>I would like the agenda to focus on:
>>
>>1. A long-term plan for the ownership of the Swin disks and chassis now
>>that
>>we have no staff with VLBI interests left. - Our preferred option is
>>to repopulate
>>the chassis with at least 500 GB drives and sell off the remaining Swin
>>disks.
>>
>>2. Some short term flexibility to ensure science is not compromised
>>and the ATNF
>>not embarrassed by a lack of disk space, but an attempt to ensure P630 and
>>our major simulations can proceed too.
>>
>>Thanks - Matthew
>
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>Chris Phillips
>CSIRO ATNF eVLBI project scientist
>Office: (+61) (0)2 93724608 Mobile: (+61) (0)439487601
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