Pictures From The University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation


Note: I have placed new pictures on my own web server.

I will place more pictures here as I get them and have time to play with them. Some of these are annotated versions of the ones on the main page.

Please click on a picture to get an enlarged version. When a description has [CH], it means Cory Hendrickson took the picture. [EJ] means I took it.

This is a picture of me working with our first Origin2000. We have grown a lot since this picture was taken. I don't have a large version of this picture.
[CH]This is the rear of our 96-processor Origin-2000.
[CH]A side view of our 96-processor Origin2000.
[CH]This picture shows the front-panel display of an Origin2000. This machine is part of a 32-processor Origin2000. The front-panel display of an Origin larger than 64-processors is usually placed on the metarouter. (The metarouter is only used on Origins with more than 64 processors).
[CH]This picture shows me checking out one of the modules in our 96-processor Origin2000.
[CH]This is one view of our machine room. This room houses both our 256-processor IBM SP and our 96-processor Origin2000. The SP is to the right. In the lower-left, you can see two large RAID systems, which are used on our Origin systems for home directories. I am the the person on the left. The person on the right is Mark Jones, a member of our Technical Support group.
[CH]This picture shows Kirk Deen (right) and myself (left) next to our 96-processor Origin2000. Kirk Deen is the manager of the IBM SP.
[CH]This is a picture of our 256-processor IBM SP. This image is large.
[CH]This picture shows 1.5 terrabytes of disk storage (left), a 240-tape library (middle), and the 256-processor SP on the right.
[CH]This is a large, high-quality image of our 96-processor Origin2000. This image appeared in our newsletter and was touched-up by our editor.

[CH]This image appeared in our newsletter. Everyone tells me it looks like I'm a bad actor in this picture. :-)

This is a mirror image. I believe the editor felt the picture looked better this way so I decided not to flip it. :-)

This is a large image.
Very strange picture of me and a few of my co-workers taken with an IndyCam. I have no large version of this image. From left to right: Erik (me), Hiu-Man Cheung, and Asish Dash.

During May of 1999, we begain to install a new IBM SP. For fun, we hooked up a camera to an Indy workstation to show some of the progress. Dash wrote the software to regularly take snapshots and put them on our web page. I have included a couple here. All of these are small images.

This is of me doing (or pretending to do :) something behind one of the new frames.
This picture shows Asish Dash, Myself (middle), and Kirk Deen (right). The person at the bottom of the picture (on the floor) is an employee of IBM - not sure which one. :-)
Another picture of me...
Asish Dash and myself showing work can be fun sometimes :-)
Dash really likes that hat! On the far right, you can see Kirk Deen... probably commenting on how strange we are...
Here you see me carrying the Institute's main mail server in my arms with a very strange look on my face. Kirk Deen's head is at the bottom of the picture. Before it takes its snap shot, the Indy taking the picture makes a koo-koo sound. I guess it must have suprised me in this picture!
[EJ]This picture shows to of our user support people: Shuxia and Runesha
[EJ]I suprised Amidu by taking this picture of him. Amidu is one of our user support people.

[EJ]Here is a picture of the Supercomputer Center. The Institute is housed in this building.

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[EJ]Here is a side view of the same building.

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[EJ]A picture of my office.
[EJ]Another picture, with Kirk Deen at his desk.

[EJ]This is a picture of some people I work with. From left to right: Kent Ritchie, Suvi George, Takayuki Sakurai, and Bob Fermin. In the background, you can see Shuxia Zhang walking in to the building.

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[EJ]Here is another shot.

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