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project gets underway and we have our first status meeting |
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Srinidhi |
Kevin |
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Jason |
Moving
the Machine Room entrance |
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The
System X space prior to System X
(07/27/2003) |
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| Outside
the power feed is being installed |
The
racks began to arrive from Liebert the first week of August |
Rack
assembly and prep begins |
CNS
is called in to look at the Ethernet wiring plan |
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| The
concrete pad goes in for the main power transformer |
The
electricians begin to map out the position of the indoor switching
equipment |
The
arduous task of creating over 600 power recepticals |
The
electricians hard at work |
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a limited amount of space,we moved some of the racks into the atrium |
The
main transformer being placed |
Srinidhi
makes an appearance during rack prep and talks to Josh |
More
racks arrive weekly |
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| 8"
cast iron pipe for the chilled water loop |
The
welders keep busy |
These
guys were working in 80+ F temperatures for 4 weeks |
Tent
city with up to 12 welders working at once |
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Wiring
the transformer |
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| Digging
the trench for the chilled water pipe |
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Building
the pads for the 125 ton chillers |
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| Checking
the drawings to make sure that everything is where it is supposed
to be |
The
power feed coming into the building |
Getting
the additional compressors for the two floor AC units...this was
not fun! |
Once
they were off the truck it was a piece of cake moving them |
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| Is
it gonna fit? |
The
first set of machines arrive! |
Jason
is pallet jack challenged...he gets better later |
The
atrium is ready for the volunteers |
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| Kevin,
Josh and Peter take a break once the stations are set up |
The
volunteers arrive and the assembly line is humming |
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| Jerome
did a lot of racking of machines...probably 80% of them |
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Tom
Wangler (Apple) on the phone |
Jerome
toting a PM G5 |
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| CNS
installers checking the wiring diagram |
With
the Power Distribution Units in place, the receptical placement
begins |
Volunteers
labeling the 1700 InfiniBand cables |
Kevin
stops by to check on progress |
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| Two
labels were placed on each end...that's 6800 labels! |
Installing
the pumps and balast for the chilled water loop in the warehouse |
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Another
status meeting |
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Pulling
the feeds from the switch room located off the warehouse into the
machine room...that's one inch diameter braided copper cable |
Pulling
the power cable more than 200 feet through conduit above and below
the floor...not fun. |
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| Electricians
taking a break |
Clarke
installing the Cisco 4506s |
More
power cable pulling |
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Charging
the refrigerant loop for the Liebert X-treme Density cooling system |
More
work in the power switch closet |
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| Hunter
wiring Ethernet |
Electricians |
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More
refrigerant charging...is it full yet? |
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| Another
shipment arrives and we prep with the Apple folks for the volunteers
to arrive |
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More
Ethernet cabling |
The
volunteers arrive and the line goes back into business |
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Ethernet
ready to be terminated |
Jerome... |
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| Jerome... |
Jerome... |
...and
oh yeah...Jerome |
The
main power switch going in |
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| The
pumping equipment all in place for the chilled water loop |
With
all the machines in place it's time to start wiring the InfiniBand |
Jason,
Kevin, Gene and Josh...wiring InfiniBand...joy! |
The
chillers being installed |
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Minnis
Ridenour the VP and COO Virignia Tech |
Cabling,
cabling, cabling |
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| Glenda,
Pat, and Lynn talking to Ian Hardy of the BBC |
Glenda
and Srinidhi |
Glenda
and Lynn |
Josh,
Kevin, and Phil testing the first set of nodes |
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| Josh
working on the InfiniBand interconnect cables |
These
were the last cables to be installed and they were the most painful
to install |
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The
Core Team; Kevin, Pat, Glenda, Srinidhi, and Jason (kneeling)
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The
Hokie Bird makes a visit! |
