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This massively parallel system of 65,536 nodes is based on a new architecture. It exploits system-on-a-chip technology to deliver target peak processing power of 360 teraflops. The machine is scheduled to be operational in the 2004-2005 time frames.

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This massively parallel system of 65,536 nodes is based on a new architecture. It exploits system-on-a-chip technology to deliver target peak processing power of 360 teraflops. The machine is scheduled to be operational in the 2004-2005 time frames.

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ABSTRACT

This paper gives an overview of the Blue Gene/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 frames, at price/performance and power consumption/performance targets unobtainable with conventional architectures. Blue Gene/L is a new architecture for high performance parallel computers based on low cost embedded PowerPC technology. A detailed description of Blue Gene/L is provided in [8]. In this section we present a short overview of the hardware as background for our discussion on its system software and its simulation environment.

KEY WORDS:
1. Super Computer. 2. Teraflops (trillion floating-point operations per second). 3. Embedded PowerPC technology. 4. System-on-a-chip technology.

CONTENTS
Chapter
1. Introduction 2. Literature Survey

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3. BLUE GENE\L
3.1 Major features 3.2 Architecture 4. System Packaging 4.1 Node Overview

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5. Torus Network 6. Signaling 7. Global Trees 8. Software Support


8.1 Operating System Architecture 8.2 Programming Models 8.3 Control System

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9. Cyclops64 (Blue gene/C)


10. Blue gene/P 11. Blue Gene/Q
11.1 11.2 Design Installations

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12. CONCLUSIONS & FUTURE WORK 13. REFERENCES

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LIST OF FIGURES Figure


Figure 3.1: Block diagram of Blue Gene\L Figure 3.2: One Blue gene/L node board. Figure 3.3 Blue gene/L packaging Figure 4.1: Blue Gene/L node diagram. The bandwidths listed are targets Figure 4.2: A schematic overview of a Blue Gene/L supercomputer Figure 10.1: A Blue Gene/P node card

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