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CHPC National Meeting 2011
We are pleased to invite you to the Centre for High Performance Computing National Conference to be held from 7 to 9 December 2011 at the CSIR International Convention Centre (ICC) in Pretoria.
Blue Gene/P
| System Name | Blue Gene/P |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer/ Model | IBM Blue Gene/P |
| CPU | Power PC |
| CPU Clock | 850 MHz |
| CPU Cores | 4096 |
| Memory | 2048 |
| Peak Performance | 14 TFlops |
| Linpack Performance | 11.5 TFlops |
| Interconnect | Blue Gene Tree/Torus |
| Storage (formatted capacity) | 94 TB (Multi-cluster) |
| Launch date | October 2008 |
Blue Gene/P Hardware
As part of IBM's Global Innovation Outlook and the IBM-CHPC partnership, the CHPC hosts a rack of Blue Gene (BG4A) donated by IBM (Blue Gene for Africa project).
The Blue Gene®/P system is capable of 14 trillion individual calculations per second, and is five times more powerful than the second-fastest research computer on the African continent (in Egypt). The Blue Gene®/P provides 1024 compute nodes, each with four fully cache-coherent cores and 2GB RAM. The cores run at 850MHz. These nodes provide three modes of operation for jobs:
- SMP - a single MPI task with support for four threads
- Dual - two MPI tasks with support for two threads each
- Virtual Node - four MPI tasks