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 firmware updates complete
April 12, 2019Great lakes firmware for the InfiniBand networking system will updated and verified by Dell and Mellanox, doubling the speed of the early-release system to 100…
Read moreArmis2 HPC service available
April 29, 2019Armis2 HPC service is available. Users with accounts on Armis can log into Armis2 login nodes and submit jobs. The software and module system will…
Read moreGreat Lakes primary installation complete and ARC-TS begins loading and configuration
April 30, 2019The Great Lakes installation is primarily complete other than waiting for HDR firmware public release for the new InfiniBand system. The current InfiniBand system is…
Read moreAll FOE nodes must be migrated to Lighthouse
May 24, 2019All FOE nodes must be migrated to the Lighthouse cluster by May 1st.
Read moreGreat Lakes Open for Early User Testing
June 10, 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 moreGreat Lakes Early User Testing Ends
July 10, 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
July 15, 2019Assuming all initial testing is successful, we expect that Great Lakes will become available for University users.
Read moreArmis users must migrate to Armis2
August 9, 2019Armis will be shutting down during the ARC-TS summer maintenance and all hardware will be migrated to Armis2. All users need to be migrated to…
Read more2019 Summer Maintenance
August 11, 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 moreFlux To Be Retired
October 31, 2019After 9 years, Flux will be retired, having been replaced by the Great Lakes cluster. All HPC accounts, users, and workflows must be migrated to either Great…
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 moreIf you have questions, please send email to hpc-support@umich.edu.
