IBM BlueGene Processor

Introduction
HPC Architecture
  1. Shared-memory SIMD machines
  2. Distributed-memory SIMD machines
  3. Shared-memory MIMD machines
  4. Distributed-memory MIMD machines
  5. ccNUMA machines
  6. Clusters
  7. Processors
    1. AMD Opteron
    2. IBM POWER5+
    3. IBM BlueGene processor
    4. Intel Itanium 2
    5. Intel Xeon
    6. The SPARC processors
  8. Networks
    1. Infiniband
    2. InfiniPath
    3. Myrinet
    4. QsNet
    5. SCI
Available systems
  1. The Bull NovaScale
  2. The C-DAC PARAM Padma
  3. The Cray X1E
  4. The Cray XD1
  5. The Cray XT3
  6. The Fujitsu/Siemens PRIMEPOWER
  7. The Fujitsu/Siemens PRIMEQUEST
  8. The Hitachi BladeSymphony
  9. The Hitachi SR11000
  10. The HP Integrity Superdome
  11. The IBM eServer p575
  12. The IBM BlueGene/L
  13. The NEC Express5800/1000
  14. The NEC SX-8
  15. The SGI Altix 4000
  16. The SunFire E25K
Systems disappeared from the list
Systems under development
Glossary
Acknowledgements
References

This processor is in fact a modified PowerPC 400 processor which is made especially for the IBM BlueGene family. It runs presently at a speed of 700 MHz. Because of its rather specialised nature we will discuss when describing the BlueGene system proper in section IBM BlueGene/L.