BlueGene/L supercomputer
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The BlueGene/L supercomputer was an IBM-built, massively parallel system that led the TOP500 rankings in the mid-2000s and was renowned for its exceptional performance and energy efficiency in scientific computing.
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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| BlueGene/L | 0 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
massively parallel system
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supercomputer ⓘ |
| applicationDomain |
climate modeling
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computational science ⓘ molecular dynamics ⓘ nuclear weapons simulation ⓘ |
| architecture | Blue Gene architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | distributed memory system ⓘ |
| clockSpeed | 700 MHz ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | U.S. Department of Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coresPerNode | 2 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dateOfFirstTop500Rank1 | 2004-11 ⓘ |
| designGoal |
energy-efficient supercomputing
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petascale computing ⓘ |
| developer | IBM ⓘ |
| heldTop500Rank1Until | 2007-06 ⓘ |
| interconnectTopology | 3D torus network ⓘ |
| interconnectType | custom high-speed network ⓘ |
| linpackPerformance | 280.6 teraflops ⓘ |
| location | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | IBM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memoryPerNode | 512 MB ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
high energy efficiency
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low power per floating-point operation ⓘ massive parallelism ⓘ |
| numberOfComputeNodes | 65536 GENERATED ⓘ |
| numberOfProcessors | 131072 GENERATED ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
CNK
NERFINISHED
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Linux ⓘ |
| parallelProgrammingModel | MPI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | IBM Blue Gene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakPerformance | 367 teraflops ⓘ |
| powerConsumption | about 1.2 megawatts ⓘ |
| predecessor | ASCI White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| processorArchitecture | PowerPC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| processorType | IBM PowerPC 440 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
high-performance computing
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scientific computing ⓘ |
| record | world’s fastest supercomputer on TOP500 list from 2004 to 2007 ⓘ |
| site | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Terascale Simulation Facility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | BlueGene/P NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| top500List | TOP500 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| top500Rank | 1 ⓘ |
| totalSystemMemory | 32 TB ⓘ |
| usedFor |
large-scale simulations
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stockpile stewardship program ⓘ |
| yearOfDeployment | 2004 ⓘ |
| yearOfFullOperation | 2005 ⓘ |
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High-Performance Computing Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory