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The IBM Blue Gene/Q Interconnection Fabric
January/February 2012 (vol. 32 no. 1)
pp. 32-43
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Dong Chen, Noel A. Eisley, Philip Heidelberger, Robert M. Senger, Yutaka Sugawara, Sameer Kumar, Valentina Salapura, David Satterfield, Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, Jeffrey Parker, "The IBM Blue Gene/Q Interconnection Fabric," IEEE Micro, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 32-43, January/February, 2012.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MM.2011.96,
author = {Dong Chen and Noel A. Eisley and Philip Heidelberger and Robert M. Senger and Yutaka Sugawara and Sameer Kumar and Valentina Salapura and David Satterfield and Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow and Jeffrey Parker},
title = {The IBM Blue Gene/Q Interconnection Fabric},
journal ={IEEE Micro},
volume = {32},
number = {1},
issn = {0272-1732},
year = {2012},
pages = {32-43},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2011.96},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IEEE Micro
TI - The IBM Blue Gene/Q Interconnection Fabric
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JA - IEEE Micro
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Dong Chen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Noel A. Eisley, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Philip Heidelberger, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Robert M. Senger, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yutaka Sugawara, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Sameer Kumar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Valentina Salapura, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
David Satterfield, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, IBM Germany Research and Development
Jeffrey Parker, IBM Systems & Technology Group

This article describes the IBM Blue Gene/Q interconnection network and message unit. Blue Gene/Q is the third generation in the IBM Blue Gene line of massively parallel supercomputers and can be scaled to 20 petaflops and beyond. For better application scalability and performance, Blue Gene/Q has new routing algorithms and techniques to parallelize the injection and reception of packets in the network interface.

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Index Terms:
Blue Gene/Q, BG/Q, parallel computer architecture, interconnect technologies, router architecture, routing algorithms and techniques, network interface architecture, message unit, interconnection network
Citation:
Dong Chen, Noel A. Eisley, Philip Heidelberger, Robert M. Senger, Yutaka Sugawara, Sameer Kumar, Valentina Salapura, David Satterfield, Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, Jeffrey Parker, "The IBM Blue Gene/Q Interconnection Fabric," IEEE Micro, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 32-43, Jan.-Feb. 2012, doi:10.1109/MM.2011.96
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