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CERN Computing Colloquium
The Blue Gene/L Supercomputer
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Europe/Zurich
503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)
Description
This talk gives an overview of IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer (BG/L), including its motivation, architecture and implementation. For a particular class of applications, BG/L has achieved new heights for performance/power consumption and for performance/cost. Some application results and performance comparisons will be shown. The 32768-node BG/L installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) delivers 135TeraFlop/second on the Linpack benchmark, making it the world's fastest computer. This is half the 65536-node BG/L to be completed at LLNL in 2005. BG/L supercomputers are also running at 5 other customers, with more installations every month.
Bio:
Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow was was one of the Blue Gene/L developers at IBM Watson Research in New York. He is an author of 20 papers and 15 patent applications related to Blue Gene. In Novermber 2004, he transferred to IBM Boeblingen in Germany, where he provides Blue Gene/L customer support and develops pSeries computers. Before joining IBM, he was a member of the ZEUS experiment at DESY. He received his physics PhD in 1994 from the University of Toronto. He is also more commonly known within the HEP community for cfortran.h and funnel.
Bio:
Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow was was one of the Blue Gene/L developers at IBM Watson Research in New York. He is an author of 20 papers and 15 patent applications related to Blue Gene. In Novermber 2004, he transferred to IBM Boeblingen in Germany, where he provides Blue Gene/L customer support and develops pSeries computers. Before joining IBM, he was a member of the ZEUS experiment at DESY. He received his physics PhD in 1994 from the University of Toronto. He is also more commonly known within the HEP community for cfortran.h and funnel.