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    BHANU SAI.K

    T.AJAY SINGH

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    WHAT IS BLUE GENE?

    Blue Gene is a computerarchitecture project

    designed to produce severalsupercomputers, designedto reach operating speeds inthe PFLOPS (petaFLOPS)range, and currently

    reaching sustained speedsof nearly 500 TFLOPS(teraFLOPS) .

    A Blue Gene supercomputer

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    DEVELOPERS OF BLUE GENE

    Blue Gene is a cooperativeproject among IBM

    (particularly IBM Rochesterand the Thomas J. WatsonResearch Center), theLawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory, the

    United States Department ofEnergy (which is partiallyfunding the project), andacademia.

    IBM Logo

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rochesterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Research_Centerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Research_Centerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Research_Centerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Research_Centerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rochesterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
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    WHY NAME BLUE GENE?

    Blue: The corporate color of IBM

    Gene: The intended use of the Blue Geneclusters Computational biology,specifically, protein folding

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    APPLICATIONS AND AWARDS

    IBM and its collaborators are currently exploringa growing list of applications such ashydrodynamics, quantum chemistry, moleculardynamics, climate modeling and financialmodeling.

    The project was awarded the National Medal ofTechnology and Innovation by U.S. PresidentBarack Obama on September 18, 2009. Thepresident bestowed the award on October 7,2009.

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    BLUE GENE PROJECTS

    Four Blue Gene projects :

    Blue Gene/L Blue Gene/C

    Blue Gene/P

    Blue Gene/Q

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    BLUE GENE/L

    The first computer in the BlueGene series, Blue Gene/L ,in

    partnership with LawrenceLivermore NationalLaboratory (LLNL) .

    IBM first announced theproject Blue Gene/L , Sept.29, 2004 .

    Final configuration waslaunched in October 2005.

    A Blue Gene/L cabinet

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    BLUE GENE/L PERFORMANCE

    Originally had a theoretical peak

    performance of 360 TFLOPS, and scoredover 280 TFLOPS sustained on the Linpackbenchmark.

    After an upgrade in 2007 the performance

    increased to 478 TFLOPS sustained and 596TFLOPS peak.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linpackhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linpackhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linpackhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linpackhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS
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    BLUE GENE/L FEATURES

    Blue Gene/Ls Major features are:

    Trading the speed of processors for lower powerconsumption.

    A large number of nodes (scalable in increments of1024 up to at least 65,536) .

    Three-dimensional torus interconnect with auxiliarynetworks for global communications, I/O, andmanagement .

    Lightweight OS per node for minimum system overhead(computational noise).

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    Blue Gene/L Architecture

    Can be scaled up to 65,536 compute or I/O nodes, with131,072 processors.

    Each node is a single ASIC with associated DRAMmemory chips.

    Each ASIC has 2 700 MHz IBM PowerPC processors .

    Node CPUs are not cache coherent with one another.

    1 rack holds 1024 nodes or 2048 processors.

    Each Blue Gene/L node is attached to three parallelcommunications networks: a 3Dtoroidal network for

    peer-to-peer communication .

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    Blue Gene/L Architecture contd

    1024 nodes

    System Overview

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    Blue Gene/L System Software

    System software supports efficient execution

    of parallel applications Compiler support for DFPU (C, C++, Fortran)

    Parallel Programming model

    To allow multiple programs to runconcurrently.

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    Blue Gene/C

    Blue Gene/C is a sister-project to Blue Gene/L .

    It is now renamed toCyclops64.

    It is a massively parallel,supercomputer-on-a-chip

    cellular architecture.

    It was slated for release inearly 2007 but has beendelayed.

    IBM Blue Gene/C Super Computer

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_architecturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_architecture
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    Blue Gene/P

    On June 26, 2007, IBM unveiledBlue Gene/P, the second

    generation of the Blue Genesupercomputer .

    Designed to run continuously at 1PFLOPS (petaFLOPS), it can beconfigured to reach speeds in

    excess of 3 PFLOPS.Furthermore, it is at least seventimes more energy efficient thanany other supercomputer,accomplished by using manysmall, low-power chips connectedthrough five specialized networks.

    A Blue Gene/P

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    Blue Gene/Q

    Last known supercomputer inthe Blue Gene series .

    Blue Gene/Q is aimed toreach 20 Petaflops in the2011 time frame.

    It will continue to expand and

    enhance the Blue Gene/Land P architectures withhigher frequency at muchimproved performance per

    watt.

    IBM Blue Gene/Q Super Computer

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