The IBM blue gene/Q interconnection fabric

IEEE Micro

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 32-43

  Chen, Dong ^a   Eisley, Noel A ^a   Heidelberger, Philip ^a   Senger, Robert M ^a   Sugawara, Yutaka ^a   Kumar, Sameer ^a   Salapura, Valentina ^a   Satterfield, David L ^a   Steinmacher Burow, Burkhard ^b   Parker, Jeffrey J ^c  

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

^b IBM   (Germany)

^c IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

BG Q; Blue Gene Q; interconnect technologies; interconnection network; message unit; network interface architecture; parallel computer architecture; router architecture; routing algorithms and techniques

Indexed keywords

BG/Q; BLUE GENE; INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGIES; MESSAGE UNIT; NETWORK INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ROUTER ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 84863115449     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2011.96     Document Type: Conference Paper

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