An Overview of the Blue Gene/L System Software Organization
- George Almasi ,
- Ralph Bellofatto ,
- José Brunheroto ,
- Călin Caşcaval ,
- José G. Castaños ,
- Luís Ceze ,
- Paul Crumley ,
- C. Christopher Erway ,
- Joseph Gagliano ,
- Derek Lieber ,
- José E. Moreira ,
- Alda Sanomiya ,
- Karin Strauss
EuroPar 2003 (International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing) |
Published by Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Distinguished paper - also published in Parallel Processing Letters, Vol.13, Number 4, December 2003
The Blue Gene/L supercomputer will use system-on-a-chip integration and a highly scalable cellular architecture to deliver 360 Teraflops of peak computing power.With 65,536 compute nodes, Blue Gene/L represents a new level of scalability for parallel system, with specific challenges in the areas of scalability, maintenance and usability. In this paper we present our vision of a software architecture that faces up to these challenges, and a simulation framework that we have used to experiment with our ideas.
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