A system software architecture for high-end computing
SC '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Job Scheduling for the BlueGene/L System
JSSPP '02 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Scalable Line Dynamics in ParaDiS
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Unlocking the Performance of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Blue matter on blue gene/L: massively parallel computation for biomolecular simulation
CODES+ISSS '05 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
HPC-Colony: services and interfaces for very large systems
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Designing a highly-scalable operating system: the Blue Gene/L story
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The blue gene/L supercomputer: a hardware and software story
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The design methodology of Phoenix cluster system software stack
CHINA HPC '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Asian technology information program's (ATIP's) 3rd workshop on High performance computing in China: solution approaches to impediments for high performance computing
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Overview of the IBM Blue Gene/P project
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Toward loosely coupled programming on petascale systems
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Overview of the Blue Gene/L system architecture
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Design and implementation of message-passing services for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Vectorization techniques for the Blue Gene/L double FPU
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Achieving strong scaling with NAMD on blue Gene/L
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Performance and Scalability Evaluation of 'Big Memory' on Blue Gene Linux
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Extending and benchmarking the "Big Memory" implementation on Blue Gene/P Linux
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A system level view of Petascale I/O on IBM Blue Gene/P
Computer Science - Research and Development
Early experiences with KTAU on the IBM BG/L
Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Processing
Compiler technology for blue gene systems
Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Processing
Measuring power consumption on IBM Blue Gene/P
Computer Science - Research and Development
Computer Science - Research and Development
IBM Blue Gene/Q system software stack
IBM Journal of Research and Development
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With up to 65,536 compute nodes and a peak performance of more than 360 teraflops, the Blue Gene®/L (BG/L) supercomputer represents a new level of massively parallel systems. The system software stack for BG/L creates a programming and operating environment that harnesses the raw power of this architecture with great effectiveness. The design and implementation of this environment followed three major principles: simplicity, performance, and familiarity. By specializing the services provided by each component of the system architecture, we were able to keep each one simple and leverage the BG/L hardware features to deliver high performance to applications. We also implemented standard programming interfaces and programming languages that greatly simplified the job of porting applications to BG/L. The effectiveness of our approach has been demonstrated by the operational success of several prototype and production machines, which have already been scaled to 16,384 nodes.