Overview of the Blue Gene/L system architecture

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 195-212

  Gara, Alan ^a   Blumrich, Matthias A ^a   Chen, Dong ^a   Chiu, George Liang Tai ^a   Coteus, Paul ^a   Giampapa, Mark E ^a   Haring, Ruud A ^a   Heidelberger, Philip ^a   Hoenicke, Dirk ^a   Kopcsay, Gerard V ^a   Liebsch, Thomas A ^b   Ohmacht, Martin ^a   Steinmacher Burow, Burkhard D ^a   Takken, Todd ^a   Vranas, Pavlos ^a  

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

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY;

ETHERNET; PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTER; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP TECHNOLOGY;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 21044437801     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.492.0195     Document Type: Article

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