Phase 1

Get Widom's current nodes operational for researchers.

Add new nodes, when they arrive (~end of April 2014).

Strategy

Borrow hardware from ChemIT to serve as a dedicated head node until ChemIT able to convert one of Widom's compute nodes into a headnode.

Timing?

Phase 2

When?

Take off-line one of Widom's nodes for about a month and convert it to a head node.

• Decision required: Use a new node, or an older (~2 year old) node?
  • Oliver's current recommendation: Use a new node. Pros/ cons?
• This leaves 3 compute nodes in production, on ChemIT's loaner head node.

About a month later:

Take another compute node (old or new?) off-line to test with the newly created head node. Needed for duration of test.

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