Anticipation mounts: IBM and SCD staff congregate just before the bluesky powerup. Left to right, IBM's Randy Hamann; Gary New, a facilities engineer in the Operations and Infrastructure Support (OIS) Section; Nick Dronen, a software engineer in the High-Performance Systems (HPS) Section; Aaron Andersen, OIS manager; Paul Swanson, IBM engineer; Pam Gillman, HPS software engineer; and Gene Harano, HPS manager.

At left are the six RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) storage cabinets, housing 21-1/2 terabytes of disk space for the bluesky system.

Photo: Lynda Lester—NCAR/SCD