IBM HPC Cluster

IBM High Performance Computing Cluster

The IBM High Performance Computing (HPC) service, which was offered as a service by Information Technology Services (ITS) for research use at no cost to WSU researchers for six years, has been fully decommissioned. Remaining users accounts and data were archived and will be deleted after a year of retention (June 1, 2018) Please send an email to hpc.support@wsu.edu if you have any questions. Thanks to everyone who was involved in the process for ensuring that the service was successfully transitioned to the new Kamiak HPC.

 

Project Timeline

Project Goal	Timeline
Decommission IBM HPC	November 1, 2016 – July 1, 2017
Develop and communicate the plan broadly to the user community	November 7, 2016 – June 1, 2017 (done)
Meet with user community to address concerns	Week of November 7, 2016 (done)
Ensure all services that are being used are identified	November 7, 2016 – December 30, 2016 (done)
Meet with ATOs to discuss the plan	December 6, 2016 (done)
Classify active and inactive accounts. Disable those determined to be inactive and change permissions on data to read only.	December 12, 2016 (done)
Associate all the active accounts with email address, NID and PI	November 16, 2016 – December 23, 2016 (done)
Survey and assist users with migration from the legacy HPC to alternative solutions	December 1, 2016 – June 1, 2017 (in progress)
Identify the academic workload that will be using the system for the spring semester	January 2, 2017 (done — no classes for spring)
Set up accounts for academic workload that will be using the system for the spring semester	January 3, 2017 – January 6, 2017 (N/A)
Disable the scheduler	April 3, 2017  (done)
Archive unrecovered data	June 1, 2017 (done)
Properly dispose of the hardware at project end	June 3 – June 30, 2017 (done)