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
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