T. Liebsch

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 BG/L program is developing a peak nominal 180 TFLOPS supercomputer to serve a broad range of science applications, and generalizes QCDOC, the first System-On-A-Chip supercomputer that is expected in 2003.

TL;DR: The key architectural features of Blue Genet/L are introduced: the link chip component and five Blue Gene/L networks, the PowerPCt 440 core and floatingpoint enhancements, the on-chip and off-chip distributed memory system, the node- and system-level design for high reliability, and the comprehensive approach to fault isolation.