Blue Waters Project

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)

• http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0832698

Blue Waters Symposium 2013

• SCEC NEIS-P2 Progress Summary 2013 (E. Poyraz) (43MB pptx)

Blue Waters User Portal

• Blue Waters User Portal

Blue Waters Home Page

• Blue Waters Home Page

Blue Waters User Wiki Site

• User Acct Logins

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

Related Links

• Geoinformatics Project
• SEISM Project
• CME Project