psc’s cray-xt3 preparation and installation timeline
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PSC’s CRAY-XT3Preparation and Installation
Timeline
Opteron ClusterAugust
2003
August 2003
Installation of an Opteron-based Cluster for preliminary code testing on Opteron and PGI Compilers
Access to Machines at CRAY
March – June 2004
Access to FPGA Seastar simulator and Catamount on machines at Cray
March
2004
June
2004Opteron
August
2003
Look-alike System
April 2004
Installation of "look-alike" system. Dell Servers running the Sandia Test Rig. Early Catamount testing
March
2004
June
2004Opteron
August
2003
April
2004
Seastar
PBS
May 2004
In depth discussions with Sandia on Scheduling, RAS, Catamount, and the look alike system. Gained access to RedStorm source tree.
May
2004
April
2004
March
2004
June
2004Opteron
August
2003
Seastar
Test Rig
Lustre Deployment
July 2004
Installed Lustre on the Opteron-based Cluster
May
2004
April
2004
March
2004
June
2004Opteron
August
2003
Seastar
Test Rig
July
2004
PBS
Machine Room PrepMay
2004
April
2004
March
2004
June
2004Opteron
August
2003
Seastar
Test Rig
July
2004
PBS
July 2004
NSF Award
September 2004
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has received $9.7 million from the National Science Foundation for the latest, most advanced Cray system.
Artist's rendering of PSC's Red Storm. Courtesy of Cray, Inc.
July
2004
May
2004
April
2004
March
2004
June
2004Opteron
August
2003
Seastar
Test Rig
PBS
September
2004
LustreM R Prep
http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/news/2004/2004-09-29_red_storm.html
Single Cabinet System
October 2004
Single cabinet installation
July
2004
May
2004
April
2004
March
2004
June
2004Opteron
August
2003
Seastar
Test Rig
PBS
October
2004
LustreM R Prep
Sept.
2004
NSF Award
LRNsSept.
2004
Oct.
2004
July
2004
May
2004
April
2004
March
2004
June
2004Opteron
August
2003
Seastar
Test Rig
PBS
M R Prep
LustreNSF Award
November
2004
Single Cab
SC’04Sept.
2004
Oct.
2004
July
2004
May
2004
April
2004
March
2004
June
2004Opteron
August
2003
Seastar
Test Rig
PBS
M R Prep
LustreNSF Award
November
2004
Single Cab
XT3 First Row Installed
December 2004
The first row, 10 cabinets, installed at PSC. The original single cab was integrated to make an 11 cabinet row
Nov.
2004
Sept.
2004
Oct.
2004
July
2004
May
2004
April
2004
March
2004
June
2004Opteron
August
2003
Seastar
Test Rig
PBS
M R Prep
LustreNSF Award
Single Cab
10Gig/ESC’04
December
2004
Row 2 AddedDec.
2004
February
2005
1 st Row
Lustre Available on All NodesDec.
2004
Feb.
2005
March
2005
2 nd Row
1 st Row
Storage Deployment
May 2005
Completed DDN storage deployment, 200 TB.
Dec.
2004
Feb.
2005
March
2005
May
2005
2 nd Row
1 st Row
Lustre
XT3 Ribbon CuttingJuly
2005
Dec.
2004
Feb.
2005
March
2005
May
2005
2 nd Row
1 st Row
LustreStorage
Introduction to the Cray XT3
August 2005
At this 4 day workshop, 25 users worked with Cray specialists and PSC user consultants and interacted with fellow users. Plenty of hands on time allowed them to work on their own projects.
July
2005
Dec.
2004
Feb.
2005
March
2005
May
2005
2 nd Row
1 st Row
LustreStorage
August
2005
Ribbon Cutting
XT3 in Production October 1st
August
2005
July
2005
Dec.
2004
Feb.
2005
March
2005
May
2005
2 nd Row
1 st Row
LustreStorage
Workshop
October
2005
Ribbon Cutting
Introduction to the Cray XT3
October 2005
At this 4 day workshop, 25 users worked with Cray specialists and PSC user consultants and interacted with fellow users. Plenty of hands on time allowed them to work on their own projects.
August
2005
July
2005
Dec.
2004
Feb.
2005
March
2005
May
2005
2 nd Row
1 st Row
LustreStorage
Ribbon Cutting
October
2005
Workshop
SC’05Oct.
2005
Workshop
August
2005
July
2005
Dec.
2004
Feb.
2005
March
2005
May
2005
2 nd Row
1 st Row
LustreStorage
Ribbon Cutting
Workshop
November
2005
Testing AMD Dual Core CPU’sNov.
2005
Oct.
2005
Workshop
August
2005
July
2005
Dec.
2004
Feb.
2005
March
2005
May
2005
2 nd Row
1 st Row
LustreStorage
Ribbon Cutting
Workshop
December
2005
December 2005
PSC began testing AMD Opteron dual-core cpu's in XT3 modules.
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