An overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer

This paper gives an overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer. This is a jointly funded research partnership between IBM and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as part of the United States Department of Energy ASCI Advanced Architecture Research Program. Application performance and scaling st...

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Published in:	Proceedings of the 2002 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing pp. 1 - 22
Main Authors:	Adiga, NR, Almasi, GS, Aridor, Y, Barik, R, Beece, D, Bhanot, G, Bickford, R, Blumrich, M, Bright, AA, Brunheroto, J, Caşcaval, C, Castaños, J, Chan, W, Ceze, L, Coteus, P, Chatterjee, S, Chen, D, Cipolla, TM, Crumley, P, Desai, KM, Deutsch, A, Domany, T, Donath, W, Eleftheriou, M, Erway, C, Esch, J, Gagliano, J, Gara, A, Germain, R, Giampapa, ME, Gopalsamy, B, Gunnels, J, Gupta, M, Gustavson, F, Hall, S, Haring, RA, Heidel, D, Heidelberger, P, Herger, LM, Hoenicke, D, Jackson, RD, Kopcsay, GV, Krevat, E, Kurhekar, MP, Lanzetta, AP, Lieber, D, Liu, LK, Lu, M, Mendell, M, Misra, A, Moatti, Y, Mok, L, Moreira, JE, Nathanson, BJ, Newton, M, Ohmacht, M, Oliner, A, Pandit, V, Pudota, RB, Rand, R, Regan, R, Ruehli, A, Rus, S, Sahoo, RK, Sanomiya, A, Schenfeld, E, Sharma, M, Shmueli, E, Singh, S, Song, P, Steinmacher-Burow, BD, Strauss, K, Surovic, C, Swetz, R, Takken, T, Tremaine, RB, Tsao, M, Umamaheshwaran, AR, Verma, P, Wazlowski, M, Barrett, W, Engel, C, Drehmel, B, Hill, D, Kasemkhani, F, Krolak, D, Li, CT, Liebsch, T, Muff, A, Okomo, A, Rouse, M, Tubbs, M, Ulsh, G, Wittrup, J, Bae, M, Dockser, K, Kissel, L, Seager, MK, Vetter, JS, Yates, K
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	Los Alamitos, CA, USA IEEE Computer Society Press 16-11-2002
Series:	ACM Conferences
Subjects:	Computer systems organization Computer systems organization > Architectures > Distributed architectures > Grid computing Computer systems organization > Architectures > Parallel architectures > Multicore architectures Computer systems organization > Architectures > Serial architectures > Superscalar architectures Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Simulation types and techniques > Massively parallel and high-performance simulations Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Contextual software domains > Operating systems Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Distributed systems organizing principles > Grid computing
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Summary:	This paper gives an overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer. This is a jointly funded research partnership between IBM and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as part of the United States Department of Energy ASCI Advanced Architecture Research Program. Application performance and scaling studies have recently been initiated with partners at a number of academic and government institutions, including the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the California Institute of Technology. This massively parallel system of 65,536 nodes is based on a new architecture that exploits system-on-a-chip technology to deliver target peak processing power of 360 teraFLOPS (trillion floating-point operations per second). The machine is scheduled to be operational in the 2004--2005 time frame, at price/performance and power consumption/performance targets unobtainable with conventional architectures.
ISBN:	076951524X 9780769515243
DOI:	10.5555/762761.762787