PSC’s CRAY-XT3 Preparation and Installation Timeline

Opteron Cluster August 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 2004 Opteron 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 2004 Opteron 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 2004 Opteron August 2003 Seastar Test Rig

Lustre Deployment July 2004 Installed Lustre on the Opteron-based Cluster May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 June 2004 Opteron August 2003 Seastar Test Rig July 2004 PBS

Machine Room Prep May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 June 2004 Opteron 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 2004 Opteron August 2003 Seastar Test Rig PBS September 2004 Lustre M R Prep

Single Cabinet System October 2004 Single cabinet installation July 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 June 2004 Opteron August 2003 Seastar Test Rig PBS October 2004 Lustre M R Prep Sept NSF Award

November 2004 Infiniband and 10GigE testing in an XT3 begins 10Gig/E Routing Nodes & Infiniband Sept Oct July 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 June 2004 Opteron August 2003 Seastar Test Rig PBS M R Prep Lustre NSF Award November 2004 Single Cab

LRNs Sept Oct July 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 June 2004 Opteron August 2003 Seastar Test Rig PBS M R Prep Lustre NSF Award November 2004 Single Cab

SC’04 Sept Oct July 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 June 2004 Opteron August 2003 Seastar Test Rig PBS M R Prep Lustre NSF 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 Sept Oct July 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 June 2004 Opteron August 2003 Seastar Test Rig PBS M R Prep Lustre NSF Award Single Cab 10Gig/E SC’04 December 2004

Row 2 Added Dec February st Row

Lustre Available on All Nodes Dec Feb March nd Row 1 st Row

Storage Deployment May 2005 Completed DDN storage deployment, 200 TB. Dec Feb March 2005 May nd Row 1 st Row Lustre

XT3 Ribbon Cutting July 2005 Dec Feb March 2005 May nd Row 1 st Row Lustre Storage

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 Feb March 2005 May nd Row 1 st Row Lustre Storage August 2005 Ribbon Cutting

XT3 in Production October 1 st August 2005 July 2005 Dec Feb March 2005 May nd Row 1 st Row Lustre Storage 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 Feb March 2005 May nd Row 1 st Row Lustre Storage Ribbon Cutting October 2005 Workshop

SC’05 Oct Workshop August 2005 July 2005 Dec Feb March 2005 May nd Row 1 st Row Lustre Storage Ribbon Cutting Workshop November 2005

Testing AMD Dual Core CPU’s Nov Oct Workshop August 2005 July 2005 Dec Feb March 2005 May nd Row 1 st Row Lustre Storage Ribbon Cutting Workshop December 2005 December 2005 PSC began testing AMD Opteron dual-core cpu's in XT3 modules.

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