Overview of the IBM Blue Gene/P project

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 199-220

  Almasi, Gheorghe ^a   Asaad, Sameh ^a   Bellofatto, Ralph E ^a   Bickford, H Randall ^a   Blumrich, Matthias A ^a   Brezzo, Bernard ^a   Bright, Arthur A ^a   Brunheroto, Jose R ^a   Castanos, Jose G ^a   Chen, Dong ^a   Chiu, George L T ^a   Coteus, Paul W ^a   Dombrowa, Marc B ^a   Dozsa, Gabor ^a   Eichenberger, Alexandre E ^a   Gara, Alan ^a   Giampapa, Mark E ^a   Giordano, Frank P ^a   Gunnels, John A ^a   Hall, Shawn A ^a   Haring, Ruud A ^a   Heidelberger, Philip ^a   Hoenicke, Dirk ^a   Kochte, Michael ^a   Kopcsay, Gerard V ^a   Kumar, Sameer ^a   Lanzetta, Alphonso P ^a   Lieber, Derek ^a   Nathanson, Ben J ^a   O'Brien, Kathryn ^a   Ohmacht, Alda S ^a   Ohmacht, Martin ^a   Rand, Rick A ^a   Salapura, Valentina ^a   Sexton, James C ^a   Steinmacher Burow, Burkhard D ^a   Stunkel, Craig ^a   Sugavanam, Krishnan ^a   Swetz, Richard A ^a   Takken, Todd ^a   Tian, Shurong ^a   Trager, Barry M ^a   Tremaine, Robert B ^a   Vranas, Pavlos ^a   Walkup, Robert E ^a   Wazlowski, Michael E ^a   Winograd, Shmuel ^a   Wisniewski, Robert W ^a   Wu, Peng ^a   Busche, Dennis R ^b   Douskey, Steven M ^b   Ellavsky, Matthew R ^b   Flynn, William T ^b   Germann, Philip R ^b   Hamilton, Michael J ^b   Hehenberger, Lance ^b   Hruby, Brian J ^b   Jeanson, Mark J ^b   Kasemkhani, Fariba ^b   Lembach, Robert F ^b   Liebsch, Thomas A ^b   Lyndgaard, Kelly C ^b   Lytle, Robert W ^b   Marcella, James A ^b   Marroquin, Christopher M ^b   Mathiowetz, Curt H ^b   Maurice, Michael D ^b   Nelson, Eldon ^b   Rickert, Dennis M ^b   Sellers, Glenn W ^b   Sheets, John E ^b   Strissel, Scott A ^b   Wait, Charles D ^b   Winter, Bruce B ^b   Wood, Cory J ^b   Zumbrunnen, Laura M ^b   Rangarajan, Meera ^c   Allen, Paul V ^b   Archer, Charles J ^b   Blocksome, Michael ^b   Budnik, Thomas A ^b   Ellis, Sam D ^b   Good, Michael P ^b   Gooding, Thomas M ^b   Inglett, Todd A ^b   Kaliszewski, Kerry T ^b   Knudson, Brant L ^b   Lappi, Cory ^b   Leckband, Glenn S ^b   Lee, Susan ^b   Megerian, Mark G ^b   Miller, Samuel J ^b   Mundy, Michael B ^b   Musselman, Roy G ^b   Musta, Thomas E ^b   Nelson, Michael T ^b   Obert, Carl F ^b   Van Oosten, James L ^b   Orbeck, John P ^b   Parker, Jeffrey J ^b   Poole, Ruth J ^b   Rodakowski, Harold L ^b   Reed, Don D ^b   Scheel, Jeffrey J ^b   Sell, Faith W ^b   Shok, Richard M ^b   Solie, Karl M ^b   Stewart, Gordon G ^b   Stockdell, William M ^b   Tauferner, Andrew T ^b   Thomas, John ^b   Sharrar, Robert H ^b   Schwartz, Steven ^b   Satterfield, David L ^b   Chauvin, Jeffery D ^b   Shmueli, Edi ^d   Archambault, Roch G ^e   Martin, Allan R ^e   Mendell, Mark P ^e   Zhang, Guansong ^e   Zhao, Peng P ^e   Mani, Indra ^c   Nair, Rohini ^c   Bendale, Rajiv D ^b   Curioni, Alessandro ^f   Sabharwal, Yogish ^c   Doi, Jun ^g   Negishi, Yasushi ^g   more..

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

^b IBM   (United States)

^c IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

^d IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^e IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

^f IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

BLUE GENE/P SYSTEM; PETASCALE SYSTEM;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 40749160036     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.521.0199     Document Type: Review

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