Hunter installation schedule

This page will be updated as new information becomes available. Please be aware, HPC systems are made out of leading edge components. If one of this components is delayed, the complete schedule will change. Do not take this schedule too serious...

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time frame	action
June 18th - 19th	Hawk maintenance and preparation of infrastructure (1st part). System will be reduced to 4096 compute nodes in total
October 1st	delivery parts of Hunter (racks, APU and CPU nods, cooling, mgmt-systems, ...)
early November	software installation and first application tests by pilot users
November 18th	delivery of lustre filesystems
Q4 / 2024	Hawk will be reduced by another 8 racks (if projects are active on Hunter)
January 31st	Acceptance Hunter and starting data migration onto new storage platform
end of April 2025	Hawk final power down
	installation phase finished

The following illustration shows the current planning of the Hunter installation. Please note that the schedule is subject to change.

Installation planning as of June 2024