Deployment and testing of the sustained petascale Blue Waters system

Celso L. Mendes; Brett Bode; Gregory H. Bauer; Jeremy Enos; Cristina Beldica; William T. Kramer

doi:10.1016/j.jocs.2015.03.007

Deployment and testing of the sustained petascale Blue Waters system

Celso L. Mendes, Brett Bode, Gregory H. Bauer, Jeremy Enos, Cristina Beldica, William T. Kramer

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Abstract

Deployment of a large parallel system typically involves several steps of preparation, delivery, installation, testing and acceptance, making such deployments a very complex process. Despite the availability of various petascale systems currently, the steps and lessons from their deployment are rarely described in the literature. This article documents our experiences from the deployment of the sustained petascale Blue Waters system at NCSA. Our presentation is focused on the final deployment steps, where the system was intensively tested and accepted by NCSA. Those experiences and lessons should be useful to guide similarly complex deployments of large systems in the future.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	327-337
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Computational Science
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2015.03.007
State	Published - Sep 1 2015

Keywords

Acceptance testing
Large system deployment
Petascale performance

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science
Modeling and Simulation

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