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IBM Confidential
The IBM Blue Gene supercomputer
Brendan Boulter, Computational Science Centre
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Overview
What is Blue Gene?
Why is it successful?
What is it used for?
Who buys Blue Gene?
How successful is Blue Gene?
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What is Blue Gene?
An architecture for petaFLOP supercomputing– That's 1015 FLOPs!
There are 3 members of this family:– Blue Gene/L (teraFLOP)
– Blue Gene/P (petaFLOP)
– Blue Gene/Q (exaFLOP)
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What is Blue Gene?
Blue Gene is a massively parallel supercomputer
– Compute nodes
• System-on-chip design– I/O nodes
• Linux operating system– Networks
• 3D torus (nearest-neighbour)• Collective (one-to-all)• Global barrier
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Blue Gene 3D torus network
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Blue Gene/L
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Blue Gene/P
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Blue Gene/L at LLNL
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Why is Blue Gene successful?
Scalable design– 72 racks
– 73,728 nodes
– 294,912 cores
Low power consumption– 2.9 Mwatts
Small footprint– 2800 square feet
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Blue Gene/P at Julich
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What is Blue Gene used for?
Ultrascale workloads– Weather prediction
– Climate modeling
– Structural analysis
– Fluid dynamics
– Oil discovery & recovery
– Drug design
– Biology
– Chemistry
– Astronomy
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Who buys Blue Gene?
Academia– Research
– National labs
– National supercomputer facilities Industry
– Oil & gas companies
– Car companies
– Pharmaceutical companies
– Avionics & aerospace
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How successful is Blue Gene?
Technical success– Leadership position on the Top 500
– #1 system: LLNL
– #2 system: FZ JulichCommercial success
– IBM dominates the Top 500Green success
– IBM dominates the Green 500
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Top 500
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Green 500