Blue Gene Access
INCF provides access to a Blue Gene supercomputer for the neuroinformatics community.
INCF owns a share of a BlueGene/L (BG/L) supercomputer housed in the Parallel Computer Center (PDC) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. The share is now available for use through the INCF Secretariat.
Evaluation Phase
During an initial evaluation phase, a limited numbers of large-scale
computing projects will be selected, based on the suitability of the project for supercomputing. Research groups, with limited possibilities to get access to supercomputers at their home institutions, are given priority. Approved projects will then be regularly re-evaluated. New projects will be approved based on availability and usage load of the BG/L.
The Blue Gene supercomputer
- Technical descriptions of the BG/L supercomputer can be found at: http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd49-23.html and http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247179.html?Open
- A forum for the usage of supercomputers like the BG/L can be found on the INCF Portal (forthcoming). Those users running projects on the BG/L at KTH can also get support regarding the supercomputer's operating system from
PDC's support desk . - IBM is interested in supporting the most successful applications, for which they may provide computing resources on even larger supercomputers.
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