UF HPC Wiki:Current events

12/16/08: HPC Phase III cluster powered on
- Today around noon, after many delays and complications overcome, the work to prepare Larsen 121 as a machine room was blessed by inspectors. Power and cooling were turned on to feed the 112 nodes and 896 cores of the new cluster in the UF HPC center and they were powered up. Now we can start the process of configuration of nodes and networks and then test the new systems. We hope to make the new computing capability available to users in the second week of January, 2009.

Dec 2008: PROTON Newsletter
- The UF HPC Center has been features in the December 2008 edition of PROTON!

10/28/08: RAID Inc. Case Study
- A case study has been published by RAID Inc. concerning the CRN Storage system that has been created at the UF HPC Center. More can be read at the RAID Inc. Website.

07/31/08: Revamped statistics engine
- We have revamped the statistics backend for the website, which meant rewriting a number of pages to take advantage of the new database for the statistics. As such, there may be a number of pages out there that no longer function properly. If you notice this, please let the HPC support team know and we will fix it as soon as possible.

06/13/08: Phase III HPC Center expansion
- The HPC Committee has selected the quote from Penguin Computing for the Phase III Expansion of the HPC Center. The expansion is expected to consist of the following:

    * 896 Cores
    * Intel E5462 (2.8Ghz) CPU's
    * 1600 MHz Frontside Bus
    * DDR2-800 ECC RAM

More information to come!

05/13/08: RAID Inc., the provider for the storage behind the /scratch/crn filesystem, issued a press release regarding the storage sharing demonstration between the UF HPC Center and Florida International University. In that demonstration, the /scratch/crn filesystem was mounted by clients at FIU over the high-speed network provided by the Florida Lambda Rail, and high-energy physics analyses were performed. The press release can be found here.

03/04/08: Throughputs over 2 GB/s have been achieved across the campus research network to the /scratch/crn filesystem.

02/20/08: The second user feedback meeting is now scheduled for Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 2pm. Immediately following the feedback meeting we will be holding a new user primer for those users that would like to ask questions about the system.

10/10/07: The first User Feedback Meeting will be held Friday, October 19th, 2007 from 2:00PM to 3:30PM in NPB 2205.

5/16/07: The UF HPC Center will be giving a short presentation on the hardware used at the Center at the Gator Linux User Group meeting in Gainesville. For more information, visit the GatorLUG website.

4/16/07: The UF HPC Center was a finalist for the Best Practices in Storage award in Innovation and Promise at the Storage Networking World Conference in San Diego.