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SCD Director Al Kellie holds up 'NCAR' label for bluesky
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The ARCS Phase II (bluesky) Live Test Demonstration (LTD) took place on 19 September 2002 at IBM’s large systems assembly and checkout facility in Poughkeepsie, New York. Attending from UCAR were Al Kellie, Tom Bettge, Tom Engel, George Fuentes, Marc Genty, Rory Kelly (all of SCD) and Robert Gocke of UCAR Contracts.
    
   
All 40 Regatta frames (two of which are expansion frames on the General Parallel File System server frames), three switch cabinets, and five of the six FastT500 disk cabinets, which will be delivered to NCAR as the bluesky system, were demonstrated. (Frame #3 was down due to an MCM failure and was not tested.)
All tests as specified in the LTD plan were performed, and all LTD criteria were met. Thus the LTD was successful; in fact, it went more smoothly than had been anticipated, and attendees left the IBM facility well ahead of the departure time anticipated in the LTD agenda. (See "New IBM 'bluesky' system to be delivered 2 October 2002".)
In addition to the activities planned for the LTD, IBM's Jim Tuccillo ran the LINPACK benchmarks and submitted them to the Top 500 supercomputer list. Bluesky came in at 3164 gigaflops, which places it in the top 10 systems.
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