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Re: Request to reserve an Athena Cluster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Jul 5 10:47:11 2012
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 10:47:09 -0400
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To: James R Cain <jrcain@MIT.EDU>
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2-032 is certainly the only cluster that fits these requirements, and even has a screen, but no projector. I'm still not 100% sure of the state of the network in there -- I think it's fine, but 25 people launching MATLAB simultaneously may not be the best idea in the world.
(I'd like to explore local installs of MATLAB on cluster machines now that we have the TAH license, but that's a topic for another day).
I have no objections to reserving that cluster for the hours specified (though in reality, we'd probably just change the combo and reserve it 24x7 for those 5 days), but it may be worth asking the instructors to do a dry-run beforehand and/or have a contingency plan in case something goes wrong?
There's also 14-0637,but it's probably too small.
-Jon
On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:39 AM, James R Cain wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to inquire about the possibility of reserving an Athena Cluster for a summer class run by the MIT Professional Education Program. They are running a week long class on Data Analysis that has been taught in various locations (37-312 and 1-115) in previous years. Due to a conflict in schedules, those rooms are not available during the time that they had previously scheduled. They need access to Matlab, in a room with 20+ workstations, preferably facing forward. I am not associated with the program, but am just trying to help them find a solution. I manage 37-312 which is likely to be out of commission during that timeframe.
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> The cluster that best fits these requirements is 2-032
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> July 23 Noon - 6pm
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> July 27 Noon - 6pm
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> They are expecting upwards of 35 participants which will require doubling up on workstations (which they have done in the past and would have had to do in the other clusters ). I can provide extra seating. They will require projection, which I can also provide for them.
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> Best Regards,
> Jim
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