Early experience with scientific applications on the Blue Gene/L supercomputer

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3648, Issue , 2005, Pages 560-570

  Almasi, George ^a   Bhanot, Gyan ^a   Chen, Dong ^a   Eleftheriou, Maria ^a   Fitch, Blake ^a   Gara, Alan ^a   Germain, Robert ^a   Gunnels, John ^a   Gupta, Manish ^a   Heidelberg, Philip ^a   Pitman, Mike ^a   Rayshubskiy, Aleksandr ^a   Sexton, James ^a   Suits, Frank ^a   Vranas, Pavlos ^a   Walkup, Bob ^a   Ward, Chris ^a   Zhestkov, Yuriy ^a   Curioni, Alessandro ^b   Andreoni, Wanda ^b   Archer, Charles ^c   Moreira, José ^c   Loft, Richard ^d   Tufo, Henry ^d,e   Voran, Theron ^e   Riley, Katherine ^f   more..

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

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c IBM   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

APPLICATION SCALABILITY; BLUE GENE/L SYSTEM; POWER CONSUMPTION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 27144445049     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11549468_63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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