Upcoming GBM Rooms

• 6 Mar: PH A20A
• 20 Mar - 3 Apr: MM103
• 10 Apr: CUC Pake
• 17 Apr - 1 May: MM103

Demosplash Planning Meetings

• Have started already, directly after GBMs (18:00). See Demosplash meeting minutes for link to the Hangouts call.

Power Cutoffs

• There was a high voltage line servicing PH that failed on Friday, 02 Feb. Secondary power is on, but the source is also the backup for several buildings, including CYH.
• Two shutdowns to all the affected buildings
• Consensus seems to be on 03 March (3h shutdown, 19:00-22:00), and weekend of 10 March (12h shutdown).
  • First shutdown directly on top of Retro Game Night.
  • May be okay if we finish setting up beforehand and tear down afterwards (plus shutting down), and if they start and finish on time.
  • Will wait to hear back to discuss further.

Retro Game Night:

• Got CUC Rangos for Saturday, 03 March (16:00-23:30), enough time for setup and teardown.

• Posters have started popping up around campus.
• Prof. Franchetti wants to hear when this happens; he's interested in our hardware.

Talk series

• Next up is Prof. Nicolas Christin (Cryptocurrencies) next week Wednesday.
• For some reason we got two Hawaiian pizzas, Catherine apologized :P
• We're trying the cheeseburger pizza next week; we'll see how it goes!
• fseidel will be sending an email out to members@ and the recruiting lists to announce these.

• Green Hills still hasn't responded. Catherine says not to worry, so jocelynh will continue sending them biweekly updates.

• Talk schedule (and presenters) can be found here.

• Structure of series:
  • Bi-weekly: allows for higher quality talks
  • Will be on Wednesdays at 20:00

• Are coming up on 20 March.
• Will start announcing that soon!

Air Conditioner

• All set! It's behaving.

• Saturday afternoon (12:00-14:00), 28 April.
• We have a reservation for CUC Table 1 (outside the UC), but this is a gamble since we can't also reserve a table indoors.
• Need to figure out how to rent a grill; tjjohans will contact FMS.
• Rain plan? Worst case: we just can the event. Just say "weather permitting."
• Arranging to get people to Costco for food the morning of the event.

• We need two replacement disks (approved)

• Proposed: an informal series of check-ins/meetings (actual name TBD) once a month or so focusing on maintaining VMs, geared toward the orgs that actually use our machines.
  • Start this the week after spring break, and send out an email.
  • Will need to have some plan, and draft up an invitation.
  • tparenti has a list of people it should go to.
• PGH Supercomputing Center tour (Prof. Franchetti offered to get us in touch)