MathWorks/Matlab Seminar
The Colonial One team would like to thank the people from MathWorks who came and gave us a great 2 & 1/2 hour seminar on optimizing Matlab code, porting code to C, and how to use Matlab in a distributed environment. Links to the presentation materials...
First Colonial One User’s Lunch
The Colonial One Team kicked off the first Colonial One User's Lunch, 11-Oct, and was a great success! The purpose of this monthly series of meetings is to consolidate a community of users around Colonial One and give them a chance to interact and have face to face...
Video Update: GW Colonial One Launch Event Video – Jun 25th, 2013
Ali Eskandarian, Dean of the College of Professional Studies and theoretical physicist, hosted this event featuring comments from Vice President Leo Chalupa, Chief Information Officer Dave Steinour, Dr. Diana Lipscomb, and Dr. Keith Crandall. The event officially...
Tuesday June 25, 2013 – Colonial One Launch Event!
Today is the launch event for the Colonial One cluster! We're very excited to have Ali Eskandarian, Dean of the College of Professional Studies and theoretical physicist, host this event featuring comments from Vice President Leo Chalupa, Chief Information Officer...
Monday May 13, 2013 – Cluster Configuration
Today, the project team started digging into the cluster's configuration. First up was the cluster's primary storage system. Primary Storage System Configuration The cluster will utilize the Dell NSS storage solution for user home directories over NFS providing. The...
Thursday May 9, 2013 – Hardware Deployment Wrap-Up
With the majority of physical deployment complete, Thursday was the final push to tie up loose ends and finalize the network cable runs. The last remaining task was running the optical InfiniBand cables between the compute racks and the InfiniBand network core. The...
Video Update: May 9, 2013 Timelapse All Cameras
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Video Update: May 8, 2013 Timelapse All Cameras
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Wednesday May 8, 2013 – Cabling and Labeling
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...
Tuesday May 7, 2013 – Hardware Installation and Power-On Tests
Today, physical installation of the server hardware continued. With all of the 16 blade enclosures and 96 compute nodes installed yesterday, the team focused on installing the cluster's 4 head nodes, Dell NSS primary storage system, and the Dell HSS Terascala Lustre...
Video Update: May 7, 2013 Time-lapse All Cameras
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Video Update: May 6, 2013 Time-lapse All Cameras
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Video Update: May 6, 2013 Staging Area Time-lapse
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Video Update: May 6, 2013 Front Cabinet Time-lapse
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Video Update: May 6, 2013 Rear Cabinet Time-lapse
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Monday, May 6, 2013 – Hardware Rack and Stack
On Monday morning, the GW and Dell project teams began the physical deployment of the Colonial One cluster hardware. In addition, Dell dispatched a team of 4 from their COSIP group (customer on-site inspection) to monitor and maintain quality of the installation. The...
GW Marketing and Creative Services Installs HPC Cabinet “Skins”
On Wednesday, May 1, 2013, the Colonial One project kicked off with some spiffy cabinet skins designed by the GW Marketing and Creative Services team. With the custom science-themed graphics, the Colonial One server cabinets now look as cool as the technology inside...
