Building a Hive for Queen Bee Randall Walker, Division of Administration
One Piece of Bigger Picture Fellow speakers will discuss some of the applications and benefits of the LONI supercomputers Preparations for Queen Bee just one part
.edu &.gov interface Working together to benefit Louisiana and its citizens Queen Bee is a recent example BOR / LONI initiative with support of CIO
Challenges Space Funding Technology Time Logistics Electrical Cooling
Physical Space Existing print room was best location Two large printers and associated equipment Multiple departments with server racks installed already 300-pound floor tiles not sufficient for all of proposed equipment
Funding Infrastructure costs not projected Change to existing contract required funding commitment Change orders require Legislative approval Regents and DOA split cost of 1 st change order Six change orders to date
Technology Queen Bee is a Red Hat Linux cluster 680 Dell 1950 dual quad-core 2.33 GHz processors 50.7 Teraflops (50,700 billion operations per second) 240 terabytes storage
Time Constraints Top 500 supercomputers announced twice a year Next announcement was June 2007 Deadline for submission of benchmark was May 15th
Logistics - Packaging
Logistics - Receiving
Logistics - Storing
Logistics - Assembly “Some assembly required” Find the instructions Find all the pieces Insert all the pieces Verify all the pieces Repeat 679 times
Logistics - Disposal
Electrical – 600KW UPS
Electrical - Generator
Cooling
First External 90 ton chiller
Rented Chiller
Top 500 Ranking RankSiteLocation 22Commissariat a l”Energie Atomique France 23Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) Queen Bee Louisiana 24Atomic Weapons Establishment United Kingdom Announced June 27 th at International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany
Media Coverage The Advocate – June 12, 2007
Group Effort APC Board of Regents Cisco Computing Services Corporate Mechanical Dell Facility Planning J & J Electric LONI Management & Staff Nesbit & Associates Office of Information Technology State Buildings State Purchasing
Queen Bee Hero Award Chuck Denstorff Russ Gordon David Lemoine James Morrison Danny Nesbit Without them, the Queen Bee project would have not been successful.
Queen Bee Today
Ongoing Activities Definition of roles for monitoring and maintenance of infrastructure Fiber connection from ISB to LONI optical network Installation of 3rd generator to provide N+1 redundancy to both LONI and ISB
Our long-term commitment Our goal is to provide a home for Queen Bee where she can be happy and productive for years to come
Questions & Answers We will entertain questions about Queen Bee after the last speaker has concluded their remarks.