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Building a Hive for Queen Bee
Randall Walker, Division of Administration
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One Piece of Bigger Picture
• Fellow speakers will discuss some of the applications and benefits of the LONI supercomputers
• Preparations for Queen Bee just one part
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.edu & .gov interface
• Working together to benefit Louisiana and its citizens
• Queen Bee is a recent example
• BOR / LONI initiative with support of CIO
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Challenges
• Space • Funding• Technology• Time• Logistics• Electrical• Cooling
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Physical Space
• Existing print room was best location
• Two large printers and associated equipment
• Multiple departments with server racks installed already
• 300-pound floor tiles not sufficient for all of proposed equipment
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Funding
• Infrastructure costs not projected
• Change to existing contract required funding commitment
• Change orders require Legislative approval
• Regents and DOA split cost of 1st change order
• Six change orders to date
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Technology
• Queen Bee is a Red Hat Linux cluster
• 680 Dell 1950 dual quad-core 2.33 GHz processors
• 50.7 Teraflops (50,700 billion operations per second)
• 240 terabytes storage
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Time Constraints
• Top 500 supercomputers announced twice a year
• Next announcement was June 2007
• Deadline for submission of benchmark was May 15th
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Logistics - Packaging
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Logistics - Receiving
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Logistics - Storing
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Logistics - Assembly
• “Some assembly required”
• Find the instructions• Find all the pieces• Insert all the pieces• Verify all the pieces• Repeat 679 times
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Logistics - Disposal
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Electrical – 600KW UPS
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Electrical - Generator
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Cooling
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First External 90 ton chiller
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Rented Chiller
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Top 500 Ranking
Rank Site Location
22 Commissariat a l”Energie Atomique
France
23 Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) Queen Bee
Louisiana
24 Atomic Weapons Establishment
United Kingdom
Announced June 27th at International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany
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Media Coverage
The Advocate – June 12, 2007
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Group Effort
APCBoard of RegentsCiscoComputing ServicesCorporate MechanicalDellFacility PlanningJ & J ElectricLONI Management & StaffNesbit & AssociatesOffice of Information TechnologyState BuildingsState Purchasing
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Queen Bee Hero Award
Chuck Denstorff Russ Gordon David Lemoine James Morrison Danny Nesbit
Without them, the Queen Bee project would have not been successful.
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Queen Bee Today
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Ongoing Activities
• Definition of roles for monitoring and maintenance of infrastructure
• Fiber connection from ISB to LONI optical network
• Installation of 3rd generator to provide N+1 redundancy to both LONI and ISB
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Our long-term commitment
• Our goal is to provide a home for Queen Bee where she can be happy and productive for years to come
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Questions & Answers
We will entertain questions about Queen Bee after the last speaker has concluded their remarks.