Blue Gene/L programming and operating environment

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 367-376

  Moreira, José E ^a   Almási, George ^b   Archer, Charles ^a   Bellofatto, Ralph ^b   Bergner, Peter ^a   Brunheroto, José R ^b   Brutman, Michael ^a   Castaños, José Gabriel ^b   Crumley, Paul G ^b   Gupta, Manish ^b   Inglett, Todd ^a   Lieber, Derek ^b   Limpert, David ^a   McCarthy, Patrick ^a   Megerian, Mark ^a   Mendell, Mark ^c   Mundy, Michael ^a   Reed, Don ^a   Sahoo, Ramendra K ^b   Sanomiya, Alda ^b   Shok, Richard ^a   Smith, Brian ^a   Stewart, Gordon G ^a   more..

^a IBM   (United States)

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

^c IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

INPUT OUTPUT NODES; PROGRAMMING INTERFACES; SYSTEM SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 21044455436     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.492.0367     Document Type: Article

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