From awd at cs.cmu.edu Thu Mar 5 05:27:52 2020 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 05:27:52 -0500 Subject: Auton Lab PMx project team recognized for excellence Message-ID: On March 3rd 2020, the Auton Lab Predictive Maintenance project team was honored by the Undersecretary of the Army, VADM (ret) McPherson, who handed Artur the Award for Excellence in the form of a coin (picture attached). Congratulations to the PMx team and all those involved and supporting! Cheers Artur [image: US Army Coin for Excellence.jpg] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Congrats! Srinivas. On 3/5/20 5:40 AM, Howie Choset wrote: > Artur > > Congrats to you as well and we are grateful for your hard work and leadership > > Howie Choset > http://choset.com > 412-268-2495 > > >> On Mar 5, 2020, at 5:28 AM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: >> >> ? >> On March 3rd 2020, the Auton Lab Predictive Maintenance project team was honored by the Undersecretary of the Army, VADM (ret) McPherson, who handed Artur the Award for Excellence in the form of a coin (picture attached). >> >> Congratulations to the PMx team and all those involved and supporting! >> >> Cheers >> Artur >> >> >> >> From RKP19 at pitt.edu Thu Mar 5 08:46:50 2020 From: RKP19 at pitt.edu (Poropatich,Ronald) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 13:46:50 +0000 Subject: Auton Lab PMx project team recognized for excellence In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Congratulations Artur! Well deserved! 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URL: From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Mar 10 21:29:19 2020 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:29:19 -0400 Subject: Caching done wrong Message-ID: <20200311012919.7llIipLXz%predragp@andrew.cmu.edu> Dear Autonians, One of the servers (gpu6) is about to crash due to unskilful use of python cashing mechanism. When done right cashing can improve speeds and efficiency of computing. When is done wrong cashes can quickly fill up /tmp directory. On the default Red Hat /tmp is the part of /root slice which is typically of size 50-60GB. Our typical installation requires about 30GB of space ever since I moved MATLAB to a separate slice. Please make sure that you are cashing things in your scratch directory and that you are deleting them frequently. If you don't know how to do it please ask for help. Best, Predrag From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Mar 11 00:44:26 2020 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:44:26 -0400 Subject: The Auton Lab cluster important info In-Reply-To: <7B10DB39-9244-4276-8E21-4BEE77A868F0@cs.cmu.edu> References: <7B10DB39-9244-4276-8E21-4BEE77A868F0@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <20200311044426.7IDOouIgj%predragp@andrew.cmu.edu> Dear Autonians, This the first follow up to your feedback received in response to the email sent earlier by our director Dr. Dubrawski in regard to pandemic preparedness. Nick has raised a valid concern which I could address immediately. Please continue to read. The Auton Lab users who don't have Auton Lab supported desktops have on their disposal three shell gateways bash.autonlab.org SHA256:Pf/uiR0Hzw9HpSNaf3/fRXon9gdXFes5KP7HEobNaW4 lop2.autonlab.org SHA256:LiG0+LN6Tf5EQZjZatD/WDYF2iV046y+Lnz1EXC+EXY lop1.autonlab.org SHA256:pvrXGlYOcrBOtI5b7xt4sItRkIbqRMhJ+qLRlTrgIts lop1 is only to be used by legacy account holders who have their home directories on /zfsauton. The Auton Lab members who have the Auton Lab supported Linux desktops should use them as their shell gateways. The would relieve shell gateways for the members who have no other choice. At the moment the following are specs of the most important Auton Lab computing nodes CPU cores RAM GPU CPU nodes: ari 32 520 athena 32 520 foxconn 32 384 lov1 88 764 lov2 88 764 lov3 64 256 lov4 64 256 lov5 88 764 lov6 88 384 low1 48 520 GPU nodes: gpu1 24 128 4xTesla K80 gpu2 24 256 4xTitan X gpu3 32 256 4xTitan X gpu4 32 256 4xTitan X gpu5 32 256 4xTitan X gpu6 32 256 4xTITAN Xp gpu7(on reserve)32 256 4xTITAN Xp gpu8 32 256 4xTITAN Xp gpu9 32 256 4xTITAN Xp gpu10 32 192 4xGeForce GTX 1080Ti gpu11 40 96 4xGeForce GTX 1080Ti gpu12 40 96 4xGeForce GTX 1080Ti gpu13 40 96 4xGeForce GTX 1080Ti gpu14 40 96 4xGeForce RTX 2080Ti gpu15 40 192 4xGeForce RTX 2080Ti gpu16 40 192 4xGeForce RTX 2080Ti gpu17 40 192 4xGeForce RTX 2080Ti gpu18 40 192 4xGeForce RTX 2080Ti gpu19 40 192 4xGeForce RTX 2080Ti Nick Gisolfi wrote: > I???m fine working remotely, so there isn???t anything that needs to > change in order for me to continue working in the case of a pandemic. > > One thing that may be useful???is there a CLI command to get a list of I have edited the motto of the day (MOTD) on bash and lop2 which will display the name of available computing nodes their specs. There are few older machines left from the list which will be regularly updated. I am planning to add more resources from the machines in GHC previously used by Dr. Barnabas. We also have 110K worth of hardware on the way and a plan to spend another 30-40K. > the servers I am allowed to use? I often find the lov* machines are > full of users. I usually work in ari / foxconn in those cases. I am The Auton Lab users are encouraged to use http://monit.autonlab.org Read access: username: auton password: Dr.Who to get a rough a quick up and down view of lab resources with CPU/RAM utilization. Unfortunately monit doesn't support displaying GPU loads. > not intimately familiar with how the servers operate, but I???ve > noticed that the following machines have full swap memory???it seems > like this even makes something as simple as changing directories hang. > > Low1: Full swap memory 41 GB of RAM used out of 520GB > Lov1: Full swap memory Just checked "only" 321GB or RAM is used out of 764 GB of RAM. changing directory was not slow for me. > Lov2: Full swap memory 32 GB of RAM used out of 764 GB of RAM > Lov4: Full swap memory > 97GB of RAM out of 256GB Our machines have a very long, often over the year, up times. Sofware, including OSs have bugs which lead to memory leaks. Please report things and I will have no problem rebooting things. NFS stale file handles are another source of the problem. I am planning to move /zfsauton/data and /zfsauton/project new file server ourea.int.autonlab.org bought few months ago. The server is up and running but I was reluctant to ZFS replicate sets in the middle of the semmester. The new file server has even dedicated NVMe for SLOG https://jrs-s.net/2019/05/02/zfs-sync-async-zil-slog/ Unfortunatelly the Auton Lab currently doesn't have written user agreement, data user agreement, and software developer non-disclosure agreement. These might be put together on the emergancy base in response to misuse of resources. At this point at lease half dozen GPU servers are hoged by people who are running CPU intensive jobs. This is absolutely unacceptable and those members have to stop that doing now. > I don???t know if this is something worth rebooting over. > I just rebooted GPU5 for similar issue. > I would also recommend encouraging everyone in the lab to use the > Auton Slack team. I think Predrag and Kyle are admins on the account > (?) so they may need to manually add other lab members. This seems > like a great way to stay in touch (in real-time) in the event of > prolonged off-campus work. I will be logged on Slack regularly. Predrag > > If I think of anything else, I???ll let you know. > > - Nick > > C: 484.553.2708 From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Mar 11 01:07:54 2020 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 01:07:54 -0400 Subject: Misuse of resources Message-ID: <20200311050754.bAYq32FF9%predragp@andrew.cmu.edu> Dear Autonians, This is a short list of commonly observed misuses of our lab resources. 1. Using GPU nodes for CPU jobs. Currently 6 out of 19 GPU nodes are currently running CPU jobs while I am typing this email. This has to stop immediately! 2. Using a cache to avoid recomputing data or accessing a slow database can provide you with a great performance boost. Do not under any circumstance use your home directory for caching. Do not use /tmp partition for caching. /tmp is the part of / slice which is limited to 50-60GB only and will quickly be filled rendering machine non-usable for everyone. 3. Don't put Jupiter sqlite database on your home directory. It is likely going to become incoherent due to NFS properties. Please use /home/scratch/$username for sqlite database, cashing, and volatile data in particular. 4. Please make sure you release GPU cards once you are done running your Python scripts. Typically the easiest way for me to deal with those as well as zombi processes is reboot. Chances of comp nodes experiencing hardware problem grow exponentially with each reboot (dead RAM typically). Those are very time consuming to fix. 5. Please clean your scratch directories regulary. I can't emphasis enough how important is this. 6. If you do have an Auton Lab issued desktop which is VPN connected to the computing nodes please don't use shell gateways under any circumstances to connect to comp nodes. Your desktops are your private shell gateways and they are ssh reachable from anywhere on the world. 7. Do not store non-essential things in your home directories. An example would be putting your conda or R packages. Please put that in scratch. Write a small script which can recreate scratch directories for you. 8. Please don't transfer large amounts of data via shell gateways. Log into the comp nodes and use outgoing ssh connections to pull the data onto the server from outside the lab. Likely to be continued after a good night sleep... Cheers, Predrag From tanmaya at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Mar 11 17:15:00 2020 From: tanmaya at andrew.cmu.edu (Tanmay Agarwal) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:15:00 -0400 Subject: Misuse of resources In-Reply-To: <20200311050754.bAYq32FF9%predragp@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <20200311050754.bAYq32FF9%predragp@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Hi Autonians, Adding on to Predrag's long list of misuse, I also request people who are running tensorflow jobs on GPU to make sure about the following things. 1. Limit the GPU usage to only the cards that are required for the jobs. *BY DEFAULT*, tensorflow will use up GPU memory from the *ALL* *GPU cards* available on the machine which may by lying idle most of the time. This can be done by setting the CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES inside your environment or using the tf.config.experimental.set_visible_devices within Tensorflow. 2. Secondly, you may also want to *SET* the *FLAG* *TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH* or tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth which allocates and uses memory in a dynamic fashion. I hope following the above practices will help us utilize our shared resources more efficiently. Reference: https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/gpu Thanking you, Warm Regards, Tanmay Agarwal | MSR Graduate Student Robotics Institute @ CMU mailto: tanmaya at andrew.cmu.edu On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:09 AM Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Dear Autonians, > > This is a short list of commonly observed misuses of our lab resources. > > 1. Using GPU nodes for CPU jobs. Currently 6 out of 19 GPU nodes are > currently running CPU jobs while I am typing this email. This has to > stop immediately! > > 2. Using a cache to avoid recomputing data or accessing a slow database > can provide you with a great performance boost. Do not under any > circumstance use your home directory for caching. Do not use /tmp > partition for caching. /tmp is the part of / slice which is limited to > 50-60GB only and will quickly be filled rendering machine non-usable for > everyone. > > 3. Don't put Jupiter sqlite database on your home directory. It is > likely going to become incoherent due to NFS properties. Please use > > /home/scratch/$username > > for sqlite database, cashing, and volatile data in particular. > > 4. Please make sure you release GPU cards once you are done running your > Python scripts. Typically the easiest way for me to deal with those as > well as zombi processes is reboot. Chances of comp nodes experiencing > hardware problem grow exponentially with each reboot (dead RAM > typically). Those are very time consuming to fix. > > 5. Please clean your scratch directories regulary. I can't emphasis > enough how important is this. > > 6. If you do have an Auton Lab issued desktop which is VPN connected to > the computing nodes please don't use shell gateways under any > circumstances to connect to comp nodes. Your desktops are your private > shell gateways and they are ssh reachable from anywhere on the world. > > 7. Do not store non-essential things in your home directories. An > example would be putting your conda or R packages. Please put that in > scratch. Write a small script which can recreate scratch directories for > you. > > 8. Please don't transfer large amounts of data via shell gateways. Log > into the comp nodes and use outgoing ssh connections to pull the data > onto the server from outside the lab. > > Likely to be continued after a good night sleep... > > > Cheers, > Predrag > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can see the result at https://www.autonlab.org/autonlab_wiki/ After you get prompted for username and password enter username: auton password: Dr.Who We could have per user authentication if Lab elders insist on it but this is fully static HTML+CSS code written by hand and essentially I am just trying to keep this document internal. All of you have seen all these things during mandatory orientation. I have contents placeholder for everything I would like to add to the page in the immediate future. I also have content scattered around various documents on my computer. That will take a day or two to be entered. I will gladly accept plain text files of the things you think will be useful either during on-boarding, off-boarding, or lab tenure. Predrag From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Mar 16 13:36:54 2020 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 13:36:54 -0400 Subject: The Auton Lab Intranet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20200316173654.RAMc6oQmc%predragp@andrew.cmu.edu> Robert Edman wrote: > Predrag, > > Is there a guide for setting up a VPN to the lab network from our home > computers? I know Gus just went through this on his desktop - but it would > make some work easier from home. The short answer is NO. The longer answer is that only supported desktops are supposed to have OpenVPN connections to the gateway to the Auton Lab proper (computing nodes). No laptops or other personal devices will be given OpenVPN credentials to get to the heart of the lab. You have the shell access whic his the poor men's VPN. I have to be able to track where the attacks are coming from. The easiest way (think of medieval castles) is forcing people to use the same gateways. Now, you and people who have supported desktops are already privileged as you have your private gateway machine. And I am not stupid:-) You can try to reuse credentials I left on your desktop for you private machine since you have the root access to you machine. If I see any attempts for people trying to do that I will restrict the IP addresses from which OpenVPN connection can be established as well as close quite a few attack vectors which are now open as the part of circle of trust. The offender(s) will be billed for the labour cost :-) Best, Predrag > > --Rob > > > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 11:48 PM Predrag Punosevac > wrote: > > > Dear Autonians, > > > > I hope all of you are healthy and doing well. In lieu of the fact that > > most of us will be telecommuting for a while in order to help fight > > pandemic I now longer could procrastinate with the Intranet (Internal > > Wiki). > > > > After experimenting with DokuWiki (PHP), ikiwiki(Perl), HUGO (GO > > static page generator) I just lost it and ended up just hacking > > simple HTML+CSS Wikipedia clone look alike. No CMS, no Wiki software, > > no static page generators nada. Few handwritten files. At the end of > > the day I will be the only one who edits this anyway so may as well be > > simple. I think it looks pleasant. > > > > You can see the result at > > > > https://www.autonlab.org/autonlab_wiki/ > > > > After you get prompted for username and password enter > > > > username: auton > > password: Dr.Who > > > > We could have per user authentication if Lab elders insist on it but > > this is fully static HTML+CSS code written by hand and essentially I > > am just trying to keep this document internal. All of you have seen > > all these things during mandatory orientation. > > > > I have contents placeholder for everything I would like to add to the > > page in the immediate future. I also have content scattered around > > various documents on my computer. That will take a day or two to be > > entered. I will gladly accept plain text files of the things you think > > will be useful either during on-boarding, off-boarding, or lab tenure. > > > > Predrag > > From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Mar 17 00:35:14 2020 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:35:14 -0400 Subject: free zoom alternatives Message-ID: I tested both with Google Chrome https://jitsi.org/ https://talky.io Most of the work is done in the browser of a client so it scales rather well. talky.io even works on OpenBSD and open source Chromium version. Cheers, Predag From ngisolfi at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Mar 19 09:32:00 2020 From: ngisolfi at andrew.cmu.edu (ngisolfi at andrew.cmu.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:32:00 +0000 Subject: Invitation: Auton Lab BYO-Lunch @12pm on Thursdays @ Weekly from 12pm to 1pm on Thursday from Thu Mar 19 to Thu May 21 (EDT) (users@autonlab.org) Message-ID: <000000000000935c6605a13531e8@google.com> You have been invited to the following event. Title: Auton Lab BYO-Lunch @12pm on Thursdays Hi Everyone,Let's try meeting for lab lunch over Zoom! While we are all abiding by 'social distancing' guidelines, we still need to exercise our metaphorical, social muscles!Whether or not you are eating at noon today, call in and chat with your colleagues.We hope to see you then!- Nick********Nicholas Gisolfi is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://cmu.zoom.us/j/492870487Meeting ID: 492 870 487One tap mobile+17866351003,,492870487# US (Miami)+19292056099,,492870487# US (New York)Dial by your location +1 786 635 1003 US (Miami) +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 470 250 9358 US (Atlanta) +1 646 518 9805 US (New York) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 602 753 0140 US (Phoenix) +1 651 372 8299 US +1 669 219 2599 US (San Jose) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 720 928 9299 US (Denver) +1 971 247 1195 US (Portland) +1 213 338 8477 US (Los Angeles) +1 253 215 8782 US +1 301 715 8592 USMeeting ID: 492 870 487Find your local number: https://cmu.zoom.us/u/aek5uAMONpJoin by SIP492870487 at zoomcrc.comJoin by H.323162.255.37.11 (US West)162.255.36.11 (US East)221.122.88.195 (China)115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai)115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad)213.19.144.110 (EMEA)103.122.166.55 (Australia)209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong)64.211.144.160 (Brazil)69.174.57.160 (Canada)207.226.132.110 (Japan)Meeting ID: 492 870 487 When: Weekly from 12pm to 1pm on Thursday from Thu Mar 19 to Thu May 21 Eastern Time - New York Where: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/492870487 Calendar: users at autonlab.org Who: * ngisolfi at andrew.cmu.edu - organizer * users at autonlab.org * pnspence at andrew.cmu.edu * rburcin at andrew.cmu.edu * lsciulli at andrew.cmu.edu * krw at andrew.cmu.edu * nshah2 at andrew.cmu.edu Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=dmxnOWIyYWg3NDVhYmhydnBha3VkaXFzYjQgdXNlcnNAYXV0b25sYWIub3Jn&tok=MjMjbmdpc29sZmlAYW5kcmV3LmNtdS5lZHU2Zjk4ODAzNTEyZTM2NzhmN2U0ZjdhMmI5OGRhMDJhODZlNmRhOWE2&ctz=America%2FNew_York&hl=en&es=0 Invitation from Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this courtesy email at the account users at autonlab.org because you are an attendee of this event. 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<86bbaf38eee24e048836d95ebc4ffff7@andrew.cmu.edu> <37aefc5f8031439da2e0f3419620f34c@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <93e5d7402b9f4507bcf0244332bb4ede@andrew.cmu.edu> Hello everyone, I know quite a few are trying to find ways to entertain the kiddos! I had collected some resources for my guy and put this together to share. It may be part of the resources listed by the Dean?s office in the future with updates. Stay tuned. Thanks and take care! Trish [1562005799537] Trish Spencer Project Manager Auton Lab, Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Newell Simon Hall, Room #3124| Pittsburgh, PA | 15222 T: 412.268.9422; M: 831-227-3137 | PNSPENCE at andrew.cmu.edu From: Artur Dubrawski > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:13 AM To: Patricia N Spencer > Cc: Artur Dubrawski >; Rachel Burcin >; Cheryl Wehrer >; Jean Harpley >; Karen R Widmaier >; Lujie Chen >; Eberly Center > Subject: Re: SCS TODAY: March 18, 2020 This is very useful Trish, Could you please take charge of setting up a little web document listing and categorizing these resources that could be shared across the Auton Lab and maybe RI, SCS and CMU communities? Thanks! Artur On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:07 AM Patricia N Spencer > wrote: Hello everyone, My son?s school starts online classes next week (6th grade) that will keep him busy most of the day. Its likely the younger ones that are the biggest distraction. I have seen some resources on Facebook that I saved and can share: Education companies offering free subscriptions due to school closings: https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/135609/list-of-education-companies-offering-free-subscriptions/?fbclid=IwAR26hSN8doobtpTQol0jEc1IhYiiqB447GStIZ-kniqprRWirhG_saIyu6Q Storyline Online ? actors read to children; storylineonline.net https://www.facebook.com/StorylineOnline/photos/a.158912177507620/2979053258826817/?type=3&theater 150+ educational shows on Netflix https://homeschoolhideout.com/educational-shows-on-netflix/?fbclid=IwAR3HqelWytHJOZSuUq8MN8N8JoNKXMJkgOMTM086PhjB9CzE6G3WgtU29vA Free Learning websites for kids ? pic attached https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218903164102838&set=a.2097656433722&type=3&theater Easy Indoor Activities for Kids https://www.hellowonderful.co/post/easy-indoor-activities-for-kids/?fbclid=IwAR3nCUHj48cO1hI4niI7f-6BHapNScQlnFKfL31Ye2qeyA3FCLNWiFAvTlg Good luck! Trish From: Artur Dubrawski > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:24 AM To: Rachel Burcin >; Patricia N Spencer >; Cheryl Wehrer >; Jean Harpley >; Karen R Widmaier >; Lujie Chen >; Eberly Center > Subject: Fwd: SCS TODAY: March 18, 2020 fishing for ideas... Thanks Artur ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Artur Dubrawski > Date: Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:56 PM Subject: Fwd: SCS TODAY: March 18, 2020 To: Martial Hebert > This is good, thanks Martial. One issue is that many of our staff members who have kids now need to take care of them, helping to continue their schooling is one particularly serious distraction. For my team to maintain productivity, it would be of great help if we could find a way to alleviate that a bit. I know that some EU countries have just dedicated a few tv channels to broadcast school classes so that the kids can continue their education through the school closures, while parents can do their work stuff, without spending a significant amount of time focusing on schooling their kids. I guess there must be similar resources around (the Internet?) to be put to similar use in our environment. Who could help us identify such resources? Artur On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 5:55 PM > wrote: SCS TODAY: March 18, 2020 [A late-day, daily update from the SCS Dean?s Office] MY THANKS ? To all faculty, staff and students who put in amazing extra efforts to get online teaching and learning underway today. I offer my sincere appreciation! OF NOTE ? perhaps historical: today was the first day for CMU teaching and learning taking place completely online ? reports are that things went smoothly, for the most part; challenges seemed mostly minor ? students having trouble accessing Zoom: contact your department?s academic liaison, Piazza page, or contact it-help at cmu.edu ? our goal is for every student to be able to access lectures, which will be available online if accessing in realtime is a challenge ? we are aware of one internet outage (in Squirrel Hill); the affected classes are being addressed ? I?ll hold online Office Hours via Zoom, 11:30am ? 1:00pm on Friday, https://cmu.zoom.us/j/512029450 ZOOM NOTES FOR INSTRUCTORS ? please test-drive Zoom from your location: activate 30 minutes early and consider developing a back-up plan ? Zoom allows hosting for only two meeting set up by the same person to run simultaneously. If you set up multiple meetings for recitations that overlap, you can have some else set up each meeting (e.g. TAs) ? Don?t "enable join before host" AND "record meeting automatically." You could end up recording some random noise before the class starts. ? please read the email from the Eberly Center (approx. 2:00pm) about delays in "record to cloud" in Zoom. For now, you should record to your local machine and upload to Canvas (or elsewhere). TO KNOW ? EarthTime Focuses on the COVID-19 Threat: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/earthtime-focuses-covid-19-threat ? Tartan Proud ?> The Pittsburgh Virtual Tip Jar: http://centerforethicsandpolicy.com/PGHTipJar.html REMEMBER YOUR RESOURCES For students: https://www.cmu.edu/alert/coronavirus/resources/student-resources.html For staff: https://www.cmu.edu/alert/coronavirus/resources/staff-resources.html For faculty: https://www.cmu.edu/alert/coronavirus/resources/faculty-resources.html SCS Alerts: https://scsdean.cs.cmu.edu/alerts CMU Coronavirus Updates and Information and FAQ CMU Health Services (412-268-2157) Remote Education for Instructors: SCS FAQ and Eberly Center FAQ SCS Faculty Hiring: Updates and Guidelines Until tomorrow, ----- Martial _______________________________________________ ri-voting mailing list ri-voting at lists.andrew.cmu.edu https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/ri-voting -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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But, we have implemented social distancing regime on Monday, putting the whole experiment at risk... However, Anthony and Team - at an incredibly short notice - managed to remotely configure the system for remote monitoring and remote troubleshooting, allowing - as of today - two successful surgeries, without being physically present on site at all. And yes, some troubleshooting was needed in the process. I like to compare Anthony's operation to NASA Mission Control Center (the picture below, of what appears to be his home office, even bears some similarity). But NASA staff their spacecraft with astronauts highly trained in operating their systems, the luxury Anthony and Team did not have. Congrats Anthony and Team! Artur [image: image.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, John Galeotti (Please pardon any smartphone typos.) > On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:36 AM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: > > ? > Dear Autonians, > > I am very proud of the recent accomplishments of a team of Auton Lab members led by > Anthony Wertz and including Jim Leonard, Gus Welter, Jarod Wang, and Andrew Williams, > who have just managed to pull off an almost impossible feat. > > As many of you might have known, they were building a new monitoring and resuscitation control system for an animal operating room at Pitt School of Medicine, to enable our partners there to conduct experiments in the scope of the DoD TRACIR project. The first surgeries were scheduled for this week, and it was assumed that our team would physically assist the clinicians on site to help the transition and troubleshoot any emerging issues, since such an advanced system has never been used before. But, we have implemented social distancing regime on Monday, putting the whole experiment at risk... > > However, Anthony and Team - at an incredibly short notice - managed to remotely configure the system for remote monitoring and remote troubleshooting, allowing - as of today - two successful surgeries, without being physically present on site at all. And yes, some troubleshooting was needed in the process. > > I like to compare Anthony's operation to NASA Mission Control Center (the picture below, of what appears to be his home office, even bears some similarity). But NASA staff their spacecraft with astronauts highly trained in operating their systems, the luxury Anthony and Team did not have. > > Congrats Anthony and Team! > > Artur > > > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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And special thanks to Nico in Howie?s lab, who finished pulling pieces together for us at our last moment. > > Thanks, > John Galeotti > (Please pardon any smartphone typos.) > >> On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:36 AM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: >> >> ? >> Dear Autonians, >> >> I am very proud of the recent accomplishments of a team of Auton Lab members led by >> Anthony Wertz and including Jim Leonard, Gus Welter, Jarod Wang, and Andrew Williams, >> who have just managed to pull off an almost impossible feat. >> >> As many of you might have known, they were building a new monitoring and resuscitation control system for an animal operating room at Pitt School of Medicine, to enable our partners there to conduct experiments in the scope of the DoD TRACIR project. The first surgeries were scheduled for this week, and it was assumed that our team would physically assist the clinicians on site to help the transition and troubleshoot any emerging issues, since such an advanced system has never been used before. But, we have implemented social distancing regime on Monday, putting the whole experiment at risk... >> >> However, Anthony and Team - at an incredibly short notice - managed to remotely configure the system for remote monitoring and remote troubleshooting, allowing - as of today - two successful surgeries, without being physically present on site at all. And yes, some troubleshooting was needed in the process. >> >> I like to compare Anthony's operation to NASA Mission Control Center (the picture below, of what appears to be his home office, even bears some similarity). 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Howie Choset, Professor Robotics institute, Carnegie Mellon 412-268-2495. choset at cs.cmu.edu http://Biorobotics.org On Mar 20, 2020, at 1:08 AM, John Michael Galeotti > wrote: ?Yes indeed, congratulations! Because Anthony?s system worked, we also managed to get our first ultrasound videos of the pigs today, barely in time before the governor?s announcement today! Many thanks to the Anthony & team, and to all the students in Howie?s and my labs who reengineered their systems on short notice while submitting 4 major conference papers on Tuesday. And special thanks to Nico in Howie?s lab, who finished pulling pieces together for us at our last moment. Thanks, John Galeotti (Please pardon any smartphone typos.) On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:36 AM, Artur Dubrawski > wrote: ? Dear Autonians, I am very proud of the recent accomplishments of a team of Auton Lab members led by Anthony Wertz and including Jim Leonard, Gus Welter, Jarod Wang, and Andrew Williams, who have just managed to pull off an almost impossible feat. As many of you might have known, they were building a new monitoring and resuscitation control system for an animal operating room at Pitt School of Medicine, to enable our partners there to conduct experiments in the scope of the DoD TRACIR project. The first surgeries were scheduled for this week, and it was assumed that our team would physically assist the clinicians on site to help the transition and troubleshoot any emerging issues, since such an advanced system has never been used before. But, we have implemented social distancing regime on Monday, putting the whole experiment at risk... However, Anthony and Team - at an incredibly short notice - managed to remotely configure the system for remote monitoring and remote troubleshooting, allowing - as of today - two successful surgeries, without being physically present on site at all. And yes, some troubleshooting was needed in the process. I like to compare Anthony's operation to NASA Mission Control Center (the picture below, of what appears to be his home office, even bears some similarity). But NASA staff their spacecraft with astronauts highly trained in operating their systems, the luxury Anthony and Team did not have. Congrats Anthony and Team! Artur -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pnspence at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Mar 20 09:28:15 2020 From: pnspence at andrew.cmu.edu (Patricia N Spencer) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:28:15 +0000 Subject: proud moment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Wow!!! This is really amazing! Congrats to all involved!! Trish From: Autonlab-users On Behalf Of Artur Dubrawski Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 12:36 AM To: users at autonlab.org; Howie Choset ; John Michael Galeotti ; Srinivasa G Narasimhan ; Martial Hebert Subject: proud moment Dear Autonians, I am very proud of the recent accomplishments of a team of Auton Lab members led by Anthony Wertz and including Jim Leonard, Gus Welter, Jarod Wang, and Andrew Williams, who have just managed to pull off an almost impossible feat. As many of you might have known, they were building a new monitoring and resuscitation control system for an animal operating room at Pitt School of Medicine, to enable our partners there to conduct experiments in the scope of the DoD TRACIR project. The first surgeries were scheduled for this week, and it was assumed that our team would physically assist the clinicians on site to help the transition and troubleshoot any emerging issues, since such an advanced system has never been used before. 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20200325224606.lN89Jc0qD%predragp@andrew.cmu.edu> Hitesh Arora wrote: > Hi Autonians, > > Has anyone already downloaded the GTA5 and/or Cityscapes datasets onto the > Auton cluster, and willing to share. It would save a bit of time in > downloading/transfer. Thanks! Actually I have a better idea. Before we all went into hiding I fully provisioned the newest file server bought by Dr. Jeff Schneider late last year. The server has for now only one ZFS pool due to the lack of HDDs but six storage HDDs which are installed are 12 TB each. Thus the ZFS pool I created has 48TB of useful space even before standard lz4 compression ZFS uses. For the first time we even have dedicated 2 NVMe ZFS mirror slog for the pool. https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/zfs-zil-and-slog-demystified/ although that should only impact write speed. I already remote replicated /zfsauton/data and /zfsauton/project data sets onto the new file server but I am scared to pull the trigger and change anything in the current NFS setup before we come out of hiding. However, I think it would be a very good idea that we consolidate all standard third party datasets people use in the Lab in a new ZFS dataset/NFS share which will be accessible to all users across all computing nodes. That, in theory, should off load some of the traffic from other 2 NFS servers we use for home, data, and project directories. That, in theory, should also partially solve the fact that scratch directories are machine specific. Hopefully that would also help us use less storage space as we will solve duplication problem. What I need from users is the name of dataset you think we should share with everyone and its current location. Most Kind Regards, Predrag > > Regards, > Hitesh From hiteshar at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Mar 25 19:09:21 2020 From: hiteshar at andrew.cmu.edu (Hitesh Arora) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:09:21 -0400 Subject: GTA5 or Cityscapes dataset on Autonlab cluster? In-Reply-To: <20200325224606.lN89Jc0qD%predragp@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <20200325224606.lN89Jc0qD%predragp@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Hi Predrag, That's a great idea. Following are the couple dataset/binaries we could share. Would request others to share other datasets. 1. CARLA binaries : /zfsauton2/home/hiteshar/CARLA_0.9.6 (These are currently being used by at least 6-8 people where each has their own copies) 2. Cityscapes: /zfsauton/project/public/deep_clustering/data/datasets/cityscapes (Thanks to Vincent for sharing) Thanks, Hitesh On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 6:46 PM Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Hitesh Arora wrote: > > > Hi Autonians, > > > > Has anyone already downloaded the GTA5 and/or Cityscapes datasets onto > the > > Auton cluster, and willing to share. It would save a bit of time in > > downloading/transfer. Thanks! > > Actually I have a better idea. Before we all went into hiding I fully > provisioned the newest file server bought by Dr. Jeff Schneider late > last year. The server has for now only one ZFS pool due to the lack of > HDDs but six storage HDDs which are installed are 12 TB each. Thus the > ZFS pool I created has 48TB of useful space even before standard lz4 > compression ZFS uses. For the first time we even have dedicated 2 NVMe > ZFS mirror slog for the pool. > > https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/zfs-zil-and-slog-demystified/ > > although that should only impact write speed. > > I already remote replicated /zfsauton/data and /zfsauton/project data > sets onto the new file server but I am scared to pull the trigger and > change anything in the current NFS setup before we come out of hiding. > However, I think it would be a very good idea that we consolidate all > standard third party datasets people use in the Lab in a new ZFS > dataset/NFS share which will be accessible to all users across all > computing nodes. That, in theory, should off load some of the traffic > from other 2 NFS servers we use for home, data, and project directories. > That, in theory, should also partially solve the fact that scratch > directories are machine specific. Hopefully that would also help us use > less storage space as we will solve duplication problem. > > What I need from users is the name of dataset you think we should share > with everyone and its current location. > > Most Kind Regards, > Predrag > > > > > > > Regards, > > Hitesh > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ngisolfi at cs.cmu.edu Thu Mar 26 09:55:28 2020 From: ngisolfi at cs.cmu.edu (Nick Gisolfi) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:55:28 -0400 Subject: [Lunch] Today @noon over Zoom Message-ID: <20995F29-05DA-4D44-9015-06F60E6EE607@cs.cmu.edu> Hi Everyone, Auton Lab?s bring-your-own-lunch will happen today @noon over Zoom. A recurring calendar invite went out last week, but here is the zoom link for convenience: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/492870487 Meeting ID: 492 870 487 We hope to see you there! - Nick From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Mar 27 00:10:14 2020 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:10:14 -0400 Subject: Auton Lab ML datasets repo In-Reply-To: References: <20200325224606.lN89Jc0qD%predragp@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Autonians, The Auton Lab has a new NFS share called /zfsauton/datasets where people could find standard datasets commonly used by our lab members. For now there are only two of them but I will be happy to add more as you make them available or point me to the sources. Best, Predrag On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:09 PM Hitesh Arora wrote: > > Hi Predrag, > > That's a great idea. > > Following are the couple dataset/binaries we could share. Would request others to share other datasets. > > 1. CARLA binaries : /zfsauton2/home/hiteshar/CARLA_0.9.6 > (These are currently being used by at least 6-8 people where each has their own copies) > > 2. Cityscapes: /zfsauton/project/public/deep_clustering/data/datasets/cityscapes > (Thanks to Vincent for sharing) > > Thanks, > Hitesh > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 6:46 PM Predrag Punosevac wrote: >> >> Hitesh Arora wrote: >> >> > Hi Autonians, >> > >> > Has anyone already downloaded the GTA5 and/or Cityscapes datasets onto the >> > Auton cluster, and willing to share. It would save a bit of time in >> > downloading/transfer. Thanks! >> >> Actually I have a better idea. Before we all went into hiding I fully >> provisioned the newest file server bought by Dr. Jeff Schneider late >> last year. The server has for now only one ZFS pool due to the lack of >> HDDs but six storage HDDs which are installed are 12 TB each. Thus the >> ZFS pool I created has 48TB of useful space even before standard lz4 >> compression ZFS uses. For the first time we even have dedicated 2 NVMe >> ZFS mirror slog for the pool. >> >> https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/zfs-zil-and-slog-demystified/ >> >> although that should only impact write speed. >> >> I already remote replicated /zfsauton/data and /zfsauton/project data >> sets onto the new file server but I am scared to pull the trigger and >> change anything in the current NFS setup before we come out of hiding. >> However, I think it would be a very good idea that we consolidate all >> standard third party datasets people use in the Lab in a new ZFS >> dataset/NFS share which will be accessible to all users across all >> computing nodes. That, in theory, should off load some of the traffic >> from other 2 NFS servers we use for home, data, and project directories. >> That, in theory, should also partially solve the fact that scratch >> directories are machine specific. Hopefully that would also help us use >> less storage space as we will solve duplication problem. >> >> What I need from users is the name of dataset you think we should share >> with everyone and its current location. >> >> Most Kind Regards, >> Predrag >> >> >> >> > >> > Regards, >> > Hitesh From vjeansel at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Mar 30 09:01:51 2020 From: vjeansel at andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent Jeanselme) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:01:51 -0400 Subject: [COVID - 19] Symptoms Questionnaire Message-ID: <90ce3e2e-25aa-0747-5d22-316a4b985aa5@andrew.cmu.edu> Hello all, In a research effort to understand the spread of COVID 19, we developed a questionnaire to self report symptoms nationwide. We encourage all of you to participate. This voluntary questionnaire will take you less than 5 minutes to complete and will allow to better understand prevalence patterns of COVID-19 and similar diseases in your area. Participation in this study is voluntary and will not result in any compensation. 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Trish From: Patricia N Spencer Sent: Monday, February 24, 2020 12:52 PM To: 'users at autonlab.org' Cc: Karen R Widmaier ; Ashley Tuerffs Papale ; Deborah D Harvard ; Cheryl Wehrer ; 'Howie Choset' ; John Michael Galeotti ; 'Pinsky, Michael R' ; 'Poropatich,Ronald' ; 'Stein, Howard R' ; 'Lagattuta, Theodore Francis' Subject: RE: Help for Luke and Sadie Hello all, As many of you know, our colleague Luke Sciulli experienced a significant fire in his home last Wednesday. His dog, Sadie, suffered from smoke inhalation but Luke was able to resuscitate her and get her to the hospital. Thankfully, both Luke and Sadie are ok, but none of the contents were salvageable and his home is going to be uninhabitable for at least 6 months. Today is the first day he was able to even get into his home after the insurance gave the go-ahead. Aside from the massive job of rebuilding and dealing with insurance, this is a big deal for a guy who's already been through a lot! We are planning to do a GoFundMe to help him out BUT this can NOT happen until his retirement from the Army is complete. Luke expects this will be finalized next week. When he tells me it is final, I will send out a link for a GoFundMe. Thanks very much! Best, Trish Trish Spencer Project Manager Auton Lab, Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Newell Simon Hall, Room #3124| Pittsburgh, PA | 15222 T: 412.268.9422; M: 831-227-3137 | PNSPENCE at andrew.cmu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: