IBM BLUE-GENE/P

IBM Blue-Gene SuperComputer

The Blue-Gene/P is extremely related in setup to the Blue-Gene/L however, the P has 4 processor cores per chip in comparison to the L’s 2. The element is quite the workhorse audacity 450.3 teraflop/s and is stock up at the DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, but administers to keep their power bills low (or at smallest amount lower, as they are working a giant super computer). The unit’s working system is CNK/SLES which is the precise same as the IBM Blue-Gene/L but, it has a more influential processor sporting a PowerPC 450 with 850 MHz, which is obliging for the science dependent research that the unit is utilized for.

The IBM Blue-Gene/L system build in 2005 propels out 478 trillion calculations per second as a result 478.2teraflop/s and is utilized at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The element is dependent on IBM’s POWER Architecture and is set up for optimized bandwidth, scalability, and fingers substantial amounts of data at the same time as using a negligible amount of electrical energy and floor space. The putting in place captures lightweight OS per node, which condenses computational clamor, 32,768 GB of memory and 106,496 nodes with every node featuring a hefty amount of memory. The unit’s main tradition is research in the form of science imitation for NNSA’s tri-lab move replication and computing program, to make certain the protection and dependability of the nation’s nuclear restraint without authentic testing.

Official Site of Blue Gene : http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/deepcomputing/bluegene/