J. Gagliano

TL;DR: An overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer, a massively parallel system of 65,536 nodes based on a new architecture that exploits system-on-a-chip technology to deliver target peak processing power of 360 teraFLOPS (trillion floating-point operations per second).

TL;DR: System-on-a-chip technology allows a level of integration that can be leveraged to develop inexpensive high-performance, low-power computing nodes that promise to challenge conventional supercomputer architectures in the high- performance computing arena.

TL;DR: The Blue Gene/L supercomputer as discussed by the authors uses system-on-a-chip integration and a highly scalable cellular architecture, with 65,536 compute nodes, with specific challenges in the areas of scalability, maintenance and usability.

TL;DR: The Blue Gene/L supercomputer as mentioned in this paper uses system-on-a-chip integration and a highly scalable cellular architecture, with 65,536 compute nodes, with specific challenges in the areas of scalability, maintenance and usability.

TL;DR: This paper discusses system management and control, including machine booting, software installation, user account management, system monitoring, and job execution, of BlueGene/L, and addresses the issue of scalability by organizing the system hierarchically.