1. PSC’s CRAY-XT3 Preparation and Installation Timeline

2. Opteron Cluster August 2003 August 2003 Installation of an Opteron-based Cluster for preliminary code testing on Opteron and PGI Compilers

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Machine Room Prep May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 June 2004 Opteron August 2003 Seastar Test Rig July 2004 PBS July 2004

8. 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 http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/news/2004/2004-09-29_red_storm.html

9. 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. 2004 NSF Award

10. November 2004 Infiniband and 10GigE testing in an XT3 begins 10Gig/E Routing Nodes & Infiniband Sept. 2004 Oct. 2004 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

11. LRNs Sept. 2004 Oct. 2004 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

12. SC’04 Sept. 2004 Oct. 2004 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

13. 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 2004 Opteron August 2003 Seastar Test Rig PBS M R Prep Lustre NSF Award Single Cab 10Gig/E SC’04 December 2004

14. Row 2 Added Dec. 2004 February 2005 1 st Row

15. Lustre Available on All Nodes Dec. 2004 Feb. 2005 March 2005 2 nd Row 1 st Row

16. 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

17. XT3 Ribbon Cutting July 2005 Dec. 2004 Feb. 2005 March 2005 May 2005 2 nd Row 1 st Row Lustre Storage

18. 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 Lustre Storage August 2005 Ribbon Cutting

19. XT3 in Production October 1 st August 2005 July 2005 Dec. 2004 Feb. 2005 March 2005 May 2005 2 nd Row 1 st Row Lustre Storage Workshop October 2005 Ribbon Cutting

20. 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 Lustre Storage Ribbon Cutting October 2005 Workshop

21. SC’05 Oct. 2005 Workshop August 2005 July 2005 Dec. 2004 Feb. 2005 March 2005 May 2005 2 nd Row 1 st Row Lustre Storage Ribbon Cutting Workshop November 2005

22. Testing AMD Dual Core CPU’s Nov. 2005 Oct. 2005 Workshop August 2005 July 2005 Dec. 2004 Feb. 2005 March 2005 May 2005 2 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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