An Overview of the Blue Gene/L System Software Organization

Abstract. The Blue Gene/L supercomputer will use system-on-a-chip integration and a highly scalable cellular architecture. With 65,536 compute nodes, Blue Gene/L represents a new level of complexity for parallel system software, with specific challenges in the areas of scalability, maintenance and usability. In this paper we present our vision of a software architecture that faces up to these challenges, and the simulation framework that we have used for our experiments.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: EUROPAR
• Authors: George Almási, Ralph Bellofatto, José R. Brunheroto, Calin Cascaval, José G. Castaños, Luis Ceze, Paul Crumley, C. Christopher Erway, Joseph Gagliano, Derek Lieber, Xavier Martorell, José E. Moreira, Alda Sanomiya, Karin Strauss
• Keywords: Blue Gene/L, Blue Gene/L Supercomputer, EUROPAR 2003, Scalable Cellular Architecture