Science at LLNL with IBM Blue Gene/Q

  • Authors:
  • B. Carnes;B. Chan;E. W. Draeger;J.-L. Fattebert;L. Fried;J. Glosli;W. D. Krauss;S. H. Langer;R. McCallen;A. A. Mirin;F. Najjar;A. L. Nichols;T. Oppelstrup;J. A. Rathkopf;D. Richards;F. Streitz;P. M. Vranas;J. J. Rice;J. A. Gunnels;V. Gurev;C. Kim;J. Magerlein;M. Reumann;H.-F. Wen

  • Affiliations:
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Weapons and Complex Integration, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Weapons and Complex Integration, Lawrence Livermore, National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Extreme Chemistry Group, Chemical Sciences Division, Physical Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM Research Division, IBM Research Collaboratory for Life Sciences-Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

  • Venue:
  • IBM Journal of Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has a long history of working with IBM on Blue Gene® supercomputers. Beginning in November 2001 with the joint announcement of a partnership to expand the Blue Gene research project (including Blue Gene®/L and Blue Gene®/P), the collaboration extends to this day with LLNL planning for the installation of a 96-rack Blue Gene®/Q (called Sequoia) supercomputer. As with previous machines, we envision Blue Gene/Q will be used for a wide array of applications at LLNL, ranging from meeting programmatic requirements for certification to increasing our understanding of basic physical processes. We briefly describe a representative sample of mature codes that span this application space and scale well on Blue Gene hardware. Finally, we describe advances in multi-scale whole-organ modeling of the human heart as an example of breakthrough science that will be enabled with the Blue Gene/Q architecture.