Justin Marshall adding new forwarding card to 48 port IP blade
New Dell nodes after the new IB cards have been installed
New Racks for Year 1 nodes
New SC 1435s with Shanghai processors. Systems are unpacked and the IB cards are installed before they are brought into the main data center.
Dan Voss demonstrating how to install a Dell quick rails.
James Guzman (SC grad student) helping with some rewiring.
Nathan Lay getting it done.
First year nodes about to be moved off of the 288 non-blocking IB fabric.
New SC1435s with new IB HCAs
Liangjing Ding installing Dell quick rails
Nathan Lay unpacking rails
Paul van der Mark, Dan Voss, Ariel Azoulay, and James Guzman (front to back) moving first year nodes to the new IB fabric.
The back of row 1
Panasas storage and new Dell racks
Nathan Lay (left) and Justin Marshall (right) getting it done.
Dan Voss (left) and Paul van der Mark (right) wiring nodes.
Dan Voss and members of the Dell installation team in the foreground. Justin Marshall in the background working on the configuration of the Cisco 6509 switches.
Mitch Gans (left) and Paul van der Mark (right) go over the electrical layout.
Jerry Swerczek (Dell) diagnosing new SC1435.
Jerry Swerczek and Steve Grasley (Dell) help to coordinate and trouble shoot hardware and shipping issues.
Paul unpacking PDUs
Justin with the switches.
Dell install team wiring new racks.
Year 2 nodes
New Dell racks.
New Dell racks
New Shanghai SC 1435 nodes
New SC1435 nodes equipped with Shanghai processors.
Rewiring of year one nodes
IP wiring.
Pulling cables
Status update.
IP cabling
Dan (font) and Paul (back) finishing the scheduler configuration, upgrading the filesystem, and running some tests.
Home away from home.
Newly wired nodes.
Infiniband Switch at near capacity.
The backend of about 150 TeraBytes of data storage.
The font end of about 150 Terabytes of storage.
Most of the owner group log in nodes
New log in node for the Physics Department.
New log in node for the Institute of Molecular Biophysics (IMB)
New log in node for the Brushweiler group.
Some of the new SC1435 compute nodes.
Row one of HPC
Row two of HPC