Abstract --
BlueGene/L is
a massively parallel Supercomputer, the largest one containing
65,536 dual processors and over 1/2 a million DRAM chips. It has
run sustained scientific applications in excess of 100 Trillion
Floating Point Operations per second. Smaller machines are
distributed throughout the world, some at leading academic
institutions. This talk will discuss the genesis of the BlueGene
machine design, and how it evolved from its humble beginning at
IBM research to the most powerful computer on the planet as
ranked by the Top500 committee. The talk will cover hardware,
software, and applications, with a focus on hardware. |
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