Scaling and applications on a massively parallel Blue Gene/L system

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 246-252

  Almasi, George ^a   Bhanot, Gyan ^a   Gara, Alan ^a   Gupta, Manish ^a   Sexton, James ^a   Walkup, Bob ^a   Bulatov, Vasily V ^b   Cook, Andrew W ^b   De Supinski, Bronis R ^b   Glosli, James N ^b   Greenough, Jeffrey A ^b   Gygi, Francois ^b   Kubota, Alison ^b   Louis, Steve ^b   Spelce, Thomas E ^b   Streitz, Frederick H ^b   Williams, Peter L ^b   Yates, Robert K ^b   Archer, Charles ^c   Moreira, Jose ^c   Rendleman, Charles ^d   more..

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

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Blue Gene L; MPI; Scalability; Supercomputers

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; BLUE GENE/L; MPI; SCALABILITY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 32844462278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1088149.1088182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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