The IBM blue gene/Q compute chip

IEEE Micro

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 48-60

  Haring, Ruud ^a   Ohmacht, Martin ^a   Fox, Thomas ^a   Gschwind, Michael ^a   Satterfield, David ^a,b   Sugavanam, Krishnan ^a,c   Coteus, Paul ^a   Heidelberger, Philip ^a   Blumrich, Matthias ^a,d   Wisniewski, Robert ^a   Gara, Alan ^a,e   Chiu, George ^a,f   Boyle, Peter ^g   Chist, Norman ^h   Kim, Changhoan ^a,h  

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

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

large and medium ("mainframe") computers; microprocessors and microcomputers; multicore single chip multiprocessors; multiple data stream architectures (multiprocessors); multithreaded processors; parallel processors; SIMD processors; speculative multithreading; Super (very large) computers; support for multithreaded execution

Indexed keywords

MULTI CORE; MULTIPLE DATA STREAMS; MULTITHREADED; MULTITHREADED PROCESSORS; PARALLEL PROCESSOR; SPECULATIVE MULTITHREADING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859704790     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2011.108     Document Type: Article

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