To prevent damage to the disks, the disks were shipped separately. Today the storage enclosures for Lustre and NFS was populated totaling 4 petabytes!
The team also managed to:
Today is the first day of set up and configuration with the Dell and DDN storage team coming on site to wire and plug everything in. Today we completed 1 Gb ethernet, 10GbE and 40GbE rack to rack cabling. We powered on 12 racks (have to wait for the the storage folks to finish to power on the other 2 racks). Lastly we completed blue light power on testing - making sure nothing was shaken to badly during transport and delivery.
On Tuesday, July 24, 2018, the Colonial One build project kicked off with the delivery of a total of fourteen racks that will house the new Colonial One environment. Each rack, which was fully loaded with servers, storage housing and other equipment, was placed on a specialized pallet. The equipment came on 2 semi-trucks: with each pallet weighing roughly 1 ton!
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