An overview of the BlueGene/L system software organization

Parallel Processing Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 561-574

  Almási, George ^a   Bellofatto, Ralph ^a   Brunheroto, José ^a   Caşcaval, Cǎlin ^a   Castaños, José G ^a   Crumley, Paul ^a   Christopher Erway, C ^a   Lieber, Derek ^a   Martorell, Xavier ^a   Moreira, José E ^a   Sahoo, Ramendra ^a   Sanomiya, Alda ^a   Ceze, Luis ^b   Strauss, Karin ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

BlueGene L; Massively parallel systems; Scalable system software

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BLUEGENE/L; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SYSTEMS; SCALABLE SYSTEM SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 10744227260     PISSN: 01296264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129626403001513     Document Type: Review

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