Seminar to be offered on BlueGene/L project

Jose Castanos from the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center will offer a brown bag seminar called ""Early experience on the BlueGene/L prototype" on Wednesday, 4 February 2004, in the Chapman Room of NCAR's Mesa Lab, from noon to 13:30.

The BlueGene/L is a jointly funded research partnership between IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This massively parallel system of 65,536 nodes is based on a new architecture that exploits system-on-a-chip, low-cost, embedded Power PC technology to deliver target peak processing power of 180/360 teraflops.

The machine is scheduled to be operational in the 2004–2005 time frame, at price/performance and power consumption/performance targets unobtainable with conventional architectures. Early prototypes with 512 nodes of this new architecture are already operational. Jose will discuss the bring-up experience and the state of the system software and programming environments. He will also present preliminary performance results.

For more information, contact Henry Tufo at 2462, tufo@scd.ucar.edu.

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