1. Building a Hive for Queen Bee Randall Walker, Division of Administration

2. 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

3. .edu &.gov interface Working together to benefit Louisiana and its citizens Queen Bee is a recent example BOR / LONI initiative with support of CIO

4. Challenges Space Funding Technology Time Logistics Electrical Cooling

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Time Constraints Top 500 supercomputers announced twice a year Next announcement was June 2007 Deadline for submission of benchmark was May 15th

9. Logistics - Packaging

10. Logistics - Receiving

11. Logistics - Storing

12. Logistics - Assembly “Some assembly required” Find the instructions Find all the pieces Insert all the pieces Verify all the pieces Repeat 679 times

13. Logistics - Disposal

14. Electrical – 600KW UPS

15. Electrical - Generator

16. Cooling

17. First External 90 ton chiller

18. Rented Chiller

19. 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

20. Media Coverage The Advocate – June 12, 2007

21. 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

22. 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.

23. Queen Bee Today

24. 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

25. 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

26. Questions & Answers We will entertain questions about Queen Bee after the last speaker has concluded their remarks.