ARC-TS HPC Timeline
| Flux | Armis | Great Lakes | Lighthouse | Armis2 | Beta |
First Flux nodes are purchased and put into production
February 19, 2010The initial 16 nodes for the Flux pilot were purchased and installed. These were 8-core Nehalem boxes with 48GB of memory.
Read moreGreat Lakes Installation Begins
October 1, 2018Dell, Mellanox, and DDN will be delivering and installing the hardware to deliver the new Great Lakes service. These teams will be working along side the…
Read moreBeta HPC cluster available
October 2, 2018The Beta HPC cluster was introduced to enable HPC users to begin migrating their Torque job scripts to Slurm and test their workflows on a Slurm-based…
Read moreGreat Lakes Beta (GLB) created
November 1, 2018Great Lakes Beta is installed for HPC support staff to build and test software packages on the same hardware in Great Lakes.
Read moreBeta Cluster testing continues
January 8, 2019If you are a current HPC user on Flux or Armis and have not used Slurm before, we highly recommend you login and test your…
Read moreGlobus Available for Lighthouse
March 1, 2019Globus will be available on Lighthouse, enabling users to migrate data from other Globus endpoints and clusters, including Flux. This service will be upgraded in…
Read moreLighthouse HPC cluster available for testing
March 7, 2019The Lighthouse cluster is available for testing. We will have 2 test nodes and a test account for FOE users to submit jobs during this…
Read moreHPC OnDemand Available for Beta
March 8, 2019The replacement for ARC Connect, called HPC OnDemand, will be available for users. This will allow users to submit jobs via the web rather than…
Read moreHPC OnDemand Available for Lighthouse
March 12, 2019The replacement for ARC Connect, called HPC OnDemand, will be available for users. This will allow users to submit jobs via the web rather than…
Read moreLighthouse HPC cluster available
March 18, 2019The Lighthouse cluster is available. The login hosts will be available to update home directories and see the new environment. The software and module environments…
Read moreGreat Lakes primary installation complete and ARC-TS begins loading and configuration
May 30, 2019The Great Lakes installation is primarily complete other than waiting for final HDR firmware testing for the new InfiniBand system. The current InfiniBand system is…
Read moreGreat lakes firmware updates complete
July 8, 2019This date is a rough estimate. Great Lakes, as of June, is running a GA-candidate HDR-100 InfiniBand firmware. We will schedule an update to the…
Read moreGreat Lakes Open for Early User Testing
July 15, 2019We will be looking for sets of friendly users who will be able to test different aspects of the system to submit their workloads to…
Read more2019 Summer Maintenance
August 12, 2019The ARC-TS annual summer maintenance will begin. The details, services impacted, and length of the maintenance will be determined when we get closer to the date. …
Read moreGreat Lakes Early User Testing Ends
August 14, 2019The Great Lakes early user period for testing will end. Great Lakes will transition into production and users will be able to submit work as…
Read moreGreat Lakes Open for General Availability
August 19, 2019Assuming all initial testing is successful, we expect that Great Lakes will become available for University users after the ARC-TS summer maintenance.
Read moreArmis2 HPC service available
September 24, 2019Armis2 HPC service is available. Users with accounts on Armis will be able to log into Armis2 login nodes and submit jobs. The software and…
Read moreAll FOE nodes must be migrated to Lighthouse
November 25, 2019All FOE nodes must be migrated to the Lighthouse cluster.
Read moreArmis users must migrate to Armis2
November 25, 2019No jobs will run past November 25th on Armis, which will be shutting down. All hardware will be migrated to Armis2 in the following weeks….
Read moreGreat Lakes Migration Complete
November 25, 2019All HPC accounts, users, and workflows must be migrated to either Great Lakes (Standard, GPU, Large-Memory, and On-demand Flux) or Lighthouse (Flux Operating Environment nodes)…
Read moreBeta Retires
November 29, 2019Beta will be retired after both Flux and Armis have been retired, as the purpose of Beta is to assist users to transition to the…
Read moreArmis2 Billing Begins
January 6, 2020Billing for Armis2 will begin at January 6, 2020 at 9am. Rates for using Armis2 can be found here: https://arc-ts.umich.edu/armis2/rates/. No jobs will run past…
Read moreGreat Lakes Billing Begins
January 6, 2020Billing for Great Lakes will begin on January 6, 2020 at 9am. Rates for using Great Lakes can be found here: https://arc-ts.umich.edu/greatlakes/rates . No…
Read moreFlux and Armis /home and /scratch directories no longer available
February 10, 2020The Flux /home and /scratch directories will no longer be available.
Read moreWinter 2020 Maintenance
March 9, 2020The ARC-TS 2020 winter maintenance will start on March 9, 2020. You can read more about it here. https://arc-ts.umich.edu/event/winter-2020-maintenance/ Great Lakes, Lighthouse, and Armis2…
Read moreIf you have questions, please send email to hpc-support@umich.edu.
