With all of the hardware physically installed, the team turned its focus to installing the Ethernet and InfiniBand cables for each cluster node. Each node is connected to a 1Gbps Ethernet Management Network for administrative functions such as operating system deployment, application deployment, and certain management commands. The primary communication method for each node is the InfiniBand Interconnect Network. Each node has one 56Gbps FDR InfiniBand connection used for inter-node communication and input/output for the storage systems .
The project team focused on the most effective cable management method to ensure proper airflow to the front of the Dell C8000 compute nodes.
The day completed with the cabling for all 96 compute nodes completed!
Tomorrow is the last day scheduled for physical hardware deployment. Plenty left to do to ensure the cluster is ready for its baseline configuration next Monday!
