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BLUE WATERS: APPLICATION-DRIVEN SYSTEM DESIGN FOR SUSTAINED PETASCALE PERFORMANCE.

The article focuses on the Blue Waters programming system that provides sustained petaflops performance on various scientific applications. It reportedly features the Power7 chip with its 8 cores, each of which has a 32-kilobyte L1 instruction and data caches and a 256-kilobyte L2 unified cache. It...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 42; no. 11; p. 29
Main Authors: Fiedler, Robert, Wilhelmson, Robert, Kramer, William, Bode, Brett
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Nov2009
Subjects:
Computer programming
Petaflops computers
International Business Machines Corp.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Microprocessors
United States
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on the Blue Waters programming system that provides sustained petaflops performance on various scientific applications. It reportedly features the Power7 chip with its 8 cores, each of which has a 32-kilobyte L1 instruction and data caches and a 256-kilobyte L2 unified cache. It is stated that software developers in the Blue Waters system will move toward an expanded Eclipse-based integrated environment.