BlueGene/Q supercomputer
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The BlueGene/Q supercomputer is IBM’s massively parallel, energy-efficient petascale system that powered several of the world’s fastest scientific computing installations in the early 2010s.
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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| BlueGene/Q | 0 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
massively parallel system
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supercomputer architecture ⓘ |
| applicationDomain |
climate modeling
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computational chemistry ⓘ computational physics ⓘ nuclear weapons simulation ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ |
| architectureGeneration | third generation Blue Gene ⓘ |
| clockFrequency | 1.6 GHz ⓘ |
| designGoal |
high energy efficiency
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petascale performance ⓘ |
| developer | IBM ⓘ |
| green500Rank | Sequoia ranked near top of Green500 in 2012 ⓘ |
| interconnectType | custom high-speed interconnect ⓘ |
| launchDate | early 2010s ⓘ |
| locationOfMajorInstallation |
Argonne National Laboratory
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CINECA GENERATED ⓘ Forschungszentrum Jülich GENERATED ⓘ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory GENERATED ⓘ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Sequoia system GENERATED ⓘ |
| mainMemoryPerNode | 16 GB DDR3 ⓘ |
| networkTopology | 5D torus ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
hardware support for transactional memory in A2 cores
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high node density ⓘ low power consumption per FLOP ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
CNK compute node kernel
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Linux ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | IBM Blue Gene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakPerformance | 20 petaflops theoretical peak for Sequoia installation ⓘ |
| powerEfficiency | about 2 GFLOPS per watt at system level ⓘ |
| predecessor | BlueGene/P NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| processorCoresPerChip |
1 I/O core
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1 spare core ⓘ 16 compute cores ⓘ 18 ⓘ |
| processorType | IBM PowerPC A2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageSupport |
C
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C++ ⓘ Fortran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingModel |
MPI
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OpenMP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| simultaneousMultithreading | 4-way SMT per core ⓘ |
| successor | IBM Summit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| top500Rank |
Mira ranked #3 in November 2012 TOP500 list
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Sequoia ranked #1 in June 2012 TOP500 list ⓘ |
| usedIn |
FERMI supercomputer
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JUQUEEN supercomputer NERFINISHED ⓘ Mira supercomputer NERFINISHED ⓘ Sequoia supercomputer NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperMUC Phase 1 iDataPlex extension components ⓘ Vulcan supercomputer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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High-Performance Computing Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory