MARCC Update
MARCC Status
The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland at College Park have selected Dell for the deployment of the new high performance computing cluster, which will be called bluecrab (not definite). The initial hardware will contain approximately 19,102 cores divided into regular compute nodes, large memory nodes and GPU nodes. The nodes are distributed and connected using an Infiniband network (Mellanox FDR14) with a 2:1 overall topology. In addition, there will be two types of storage. A 2.1 Petabyte (usable) high performance file system running Lustre and a second partition with 18 petabytes (raw) running under ZFS. The combined theoretical performance is approximate 900 TFLOPs.
Timeline:
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Nov 14, 2014 | BGE power: Completed |
| Nov 19, 2014 | Network install, testing: Completed |
| Nov 24 – Dec 19, 2014 |
Data center testing and commissioning:Completed on 1/23/2015 |
| End of Jan, 2015 | Dell delivers IT stack. Completed |
| Feb 19 – March 6 2015 | Site build-out Completed |
| March 9 – May 31, 2015 | MARCC testing by vendor. Completed |
| May 1 – May 15, 2015 |
MARCC configuration by JHU. Completed |
| June 1, – July 1 2015 |
Beta testing. Completed |
| July, 2015 | Production date. Completed |