Difference between revisions of "Blue Waters Project"
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| + | Blue Waters is a Cray XE6/XK7 system consisting of more than 22,500 XE6 compute nodes (each containing two AMD Interlagos processors) augmented by more than 4200 XK7 compute nodes (each containing one AMD Interlagos processor and one NVIDIA GK110 "Kepler" accelerator) in a single Gemini interconnection fabric. This configuration enables extremely large simulations on hundreds of thousands of traditional CPUs for science and engineering discovery, while also supporting development and optimization of cutting-edge applications capable of leveraging the compute power of thousands of GPUs. | ||
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'''Petascale Research in Earthquake System Science on Blue Waters (OCI-0832698)''' | '''Petascale Research in Earthquake System Science on Blue Waters (OCI-0832698)''' | ||
Revision as of 05:34, 28 March 2014
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Description
Blue Waters is a Cray XE6/XK7 system consisting of more than 22,500 XE6 compute nodes (each containing two AMD Interlagos processors) augmented by more than 4200 XK7 compute nodes (each containing one AMD Interlagos processor and one NVIDIA GK110 "Kepler" accelerator) in a single Gemini interconnection fabric. This configuration enables extremely large simulations on hundreds of thousands of traditional CPUs for science and engineering discovery, while also supporting development and optimization of cutting-edge applications capable of leveraging the compute power of thousands of GPUs.
Award
Petascale Research in Earthquake System Science on Blue Waters (OCI-0832698)
Blue Waters Symposium 2013
- SCEC NEIS-P2 Progress Summary 2013 (E. Poyraz) (43MB pptx)
Blue Waters User Portal
Blue Waters Home Page
Blue Waters User Wiki Site
File System Organization
The three file systems are provided to the users as follows:
- /u – storage for home directories
- /projects – storage for project home directories
- /scratch – high performance, high capacity transient storage for applications
