Project Kittyhawk: Building a global-scale computer: Blue Gene/P as a generic computing platform

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-84

  Appavoo, Jonathan ^a   Uhlig, Volkmar ^a   Waterland, Amos ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE GENE; COMMODITY CLUSTERS; COMPUTING PLATFORM; GENERIC PLATFORMS; GENERIC SYSTEM; HIGH-SPEED; HIGH-SPEED INTERCONNECTS; LARGE CLASS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING; SYSTEM SOFTWARES; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP; TCP/IP NETWORKS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FIRMWARE;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 51049085672     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1341312.1341326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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