Editing IBM Blue Gene (section)

=== Installations ===
The following is an incomplete list of Blue Gene/Q installations. Per June 2012, the TOP500 list contained 20 Blue Gene/Q installations of 1/2-rack (512 nodes, 8192 processor cores, 86.35&nbsp;TFLOPS Linpack) and larger.<ref name=Top500/>  At a (size-independent) power efficiency of about 2.1 GFLOPS/W, all these systems also populated the top of the June 2012 [[Green500#Green500 List|Green 500]] list.<ref name=Green500/>
* A Blue Gene/Q system called [[Sequoia (supercomputer)|Sequoia]] was delivered to the [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] (LLNL) beginning in 2011 and was fully deployed in June 2012. It is part of the [[Advanced Simulation and Computing Program]] running nuclear simulations and advanced scientific research. It consists of 96 racks (comprising 98,304 compute nodes with 1.6 million processor cores and 1.6&nbsp;[[Petabyte|PB]] of memory) covering an area of about {{convert|3000|sqft|m2}}.<ref>{{cite web |last=Feldman |first=Michael |url=http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Lawrence-Livermore-Prepares-for-20-Petaflop-Blue-GeneQ-38948594.html |title=Lawrence Livermore Prepares for 20 Petaflop Blue Gene/Q |publisher=HPCwire |date=2009-02-03 |access-date=2011-03-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212034132/http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Lawrence-Livermore-Prepares-for-20-Petaflop-Blue-GeneQ-38948594.html |archive-date=2009-02-12 }}</ref> In June 2012, the system was ranked as the world's fastest supercomputer.<ref>{{cite web |last=B Johnston |first=Donald |url=https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2012/Jun/NR-12-06-07.html |title=NNSA's Sequoia supercomputer ranked as world's fastest |date=2012-06-18 |access-date=2012-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140902012510/https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2012/Jun/NR-12-06-07.html |archive-date=2014-09-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.top500.org/lists/2012/06/press-release|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624041004/http://www.top500.org/lists/2012/06/press-release|url-status=dead|title=TOP500 Press Release|archive-date=June 24, 2012}}</ref> at 20.1&nbsp;[[FLOPS|PFLOPS]] peak, 16.32&nbsp;[[FLOPS|PFLOPS]] sustained (Linpack), drawing up to 7.9 [[MegaWatt|megawatts]] of power.<ref name=Top500/>  In June 2013, its performance is listed at 17.17&nbsp;[[FLOPS|PFLOPS]] sustained (Linpack).<ref name=Top500/>
* A 10 PFLOPS (peak) Blue Gene/Q system called ''[[Mira (supercomputer)|Mira]]'' was installed at [[Argonne National Laboratory]] in the [http://www.alcf.anl.gov/ Argonne Leadership Computing Facility] in 2012. It consist of 48 racks (49,152 compute nodes), with 70&nbsp;[[Petabyte|PB]] of disk storage (470&nbsp;GB/s I/O bandwidth).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/mira-worlds-fastest-supercomputer|title=MIRA: World's fastest supercomputer - Argonne Leadership Computing Facility|website=Alcf.anl.gov|access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alcf.anl.gov/mira|title=Mira - Argonne Leadership Computing Facility|website=Alcf.anl.gov|access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref>
* ''JUQUEEN'' at the [[Forschungszentrum Jülich|Forschungzentrum Jülich]] is a 28-rack Blue Gene/Q system, and was from June 2013 to November 2015 the highest ranked machine in Europe in the Top500.<ref name=Top500/>
* ''Vulcan'' at  [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] (LLNL) is a 24-rack, 5&nbsp;PFLOPS (peak), Blue Gene/Q system that was commissioned in 2012 and decommissioned in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hpc.llnl.gov/hardware/platforms/vulcan-decommissioned|website=hpc.llnl.gov|title=Vulcan—decommissioned|access-date=10 April 2019}}</ref> Vulcan served Lab-industry projects through Livermore's High Performance Computing (HPC) Innovation Center<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hpcinnovationcenter.llnl.gov/|title=HPC Innovation Center|website=hpcinnovationcenter.llnl.gov|access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref> as well as academic collaborations in support of DOE/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) missions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2013/Jun/NR-13-06-05.html|title=Lawrence Livermore's Vulcan brings 5 petaflops computing power to collaborations with industry and academia to advance science and technology|date=11 June 2013|website=Llnl.gov|access-date=13 October 2017|archive-date=9 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209231310/https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2013/Jun/NR-13-06-05.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''Fermi'' at the [[CINECA]] Supercomputing facility, Bologna, Italy,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hpc.cineca.it/content/ibm-fermi |title=Ibm-Fermi &#124; Scai |access-date=2013-05-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030045547/http://www.hpc.cineca.it/content/ibm-fermi |archive-date=2013-10-30 }}</ref> is a 10-rack, 2&nbsp;PFLOPS (peak), Blue Gene/Q system.
* As part of [[DiRAC]], the [[EPCC]] hosts a 6 rack (6144-node) Blue Gene/Q system at the [[University of Edinburgh]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/facilities/dirac|website=epcc.ed.ac.uk|title=DiRAC BlueGene/Q}}</ref>
* A five rack Blue Gene/Q system with additional compute hardware called ''AMOS'' was installed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.rpi.edu/content/2013/10/03/amos-among-world%E2%80%99s-fastest-and-most-powerful-supercomputers|title=Rensselaer at Petascale: AMOS Among the World's Fastest and Most Powerful Supercomputers|website=News.rpi.edu|access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref> The system was rated at 1048.6 teraflops, the most powerful supercomputer at any private university, and third most powerful supercomputer among all universities in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.rpi.edu/content/2014/08/04/amos-ranks-43rd-list-world%E2%80%99s-top-500-supercomputers|title=AMOS Ranks 1st Among Supercomputers at Private American Universities|author=Michael Mullaneyvar |website=News.rpi.edi|access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref>
* An 838 TFLOPS (peak) Blue Gene/Q system called ''Avoca'' was installed at the [[Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative]] in June, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://themelbourneengineer.eng.unimelb.edu.au/2012/02/worlds-greenest-computer-comes-to-melbourne/|title=World's greenest supercomputer comes to Melbourne - The Melbourne Engineer|date=16 February 2012|website=Themelbourneengineer.eng.unimelb.edu.au/|access-date=13 October 2017|archive-date=2 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002042114/http://themelbourneengineer.eng.unimelb.edu.au/2012/02/worlds-greenest-computer-comes-to-melbourne/|url-status=dead}}</ref> This system is part of a collaboration between IBM and VLSCI, with the aims of improving diagnostics, finding new drug targets, refining treatments and furthering our understanding of diseases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vlsci.org.au/|title=Melbourne Bioinformatics - For all researchers and students based in Melbourne's biomedical and bioscience research precinct|website=Melbourne Bioinformatics|access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref> The system consists of 4 racks, with 350&nbsp;TB of storage, 65,536 cores, 64&nbsp;TB RAM.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vlsci.org.au/page/computer-software-configuration|title=Access to High-end Systems - Melbourne Bioinformatics|website=Vlsci.org.au|access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref>
* A 209 TFLOPS (peak) Blue Gene/Q system was installed at the [[University of Rochester]] in July, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=4192|title=University of Rochester Inaugurates New Era of Health Care Research|website=Rochester.edu|access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref> This system is part of the [http://www.rochester.edu/provost/hscci/ Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019071900/http://www.rochester.edu/provost/hscci/ |date=2012-10-19 }}, which is dedicated to the application of [[high-performance computing]] to research programs in the [[healthcare science|health sciences]]. The system consists of a single rack (1,024 compute nodes) with 400 [[Terabyte|TB]] of high-performance storage.<ref name="circ.rochester.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.circ.rochester.edu/resources.html|title=Resources - Center for Integrated Research Computing|website=Circ.rochester.edu|access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref>
* A 209 TFLOPS peak (172&nbsp;TFLOPS LINPACK) Blue Gene/Q system called ''Lemanicus'' was installed at the [[École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne|EPFL]] in March 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bluegene.epfl.ch/ |title=EPFL BlueGene/L Homepage |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210070627/http://bluegene.epfl.ch/ |access-date=2021-03-10|archive-date=2007-12-10 }}</ref> This system belongs to the Center for Advanced Modeling Science CADMOS (<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cadmos.org|title=À propos|first=Super|last=Utilisateur|website=Cadmos.org|access-date=13 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110132825/http://cadmos.org/|archive-date=10 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>) which is a collaboration between the three main research institutions on the shore of the [[Lake Geneva]] in the French speaking part of Switzerland : [[University of Lausanne]], [[University of Geneva]] and [[École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne|EPFL]]. The system consists of a single rack (1,024 compute nodes) with 2.1&nbsp;[[Petabyte|PB]] of IBM GPFS-GSS storage.
* A half-rack Blue Gene/Q system, with about 100&nbsp;TFLOPS (peak), called ''Cumulus'' was installed at A*STAR Computational Resource Centre, Singapore, at early 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.acrc.a-star.edu.sg/21/hardware.html|title=A*STAR Computational Resource Centre|website=Acrc.a-star.edu.sg|access-date=2016-08-24|archive-date=2016-12-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220065923/https://www.acrc.a-star.edu.sg/21/hardware.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>