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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instanceOf massively parallel system
supercomputer
applicationDomain climate modeling
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
surface form: United States
dateOfFirstTop500Rank1 2004-11
designGoal energy-efficient supercomputing
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
low power per floating-point operation
massive parallelism
numberOfComputeNodes 65536 GENERATED
numberOfProcessors 131072 GENERATED
operatingSystem CNK NERFINISHED
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
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
stockpile stewardship program
yearOfDeployment 2004
yearOfFullOperation 2005

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High‑Performance Computing Center hostedSystem BlueGene/L supercomputer
subject surface form: High-Performance Computing Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory