Contemporary High Performance Computing

Chapter 12

Pleiades: NASA’s First Petascale Supercomputer

Rupak Biswas, William Thigpen, Robert Ciotti, Piyush Mehrotra, Chris Henze, John Parks, Bryan Biegel

NASA Ames Research Center

Robert Hood

Computer Sciences Corp.—NASA Ames Research Center

12.1    Introduction

12.1.1    Importance and Benefits of HEC to NASA Missions

12.1.2    HEC System Requirements to Meet NASA Needs

12.1.3    History behind Development of Pleiades at NAS

12.1.4    NAS Technology Refresh Process

12.2    System Description

12.2.1    System Goals

12.2.2    Compute Subsystem

12.2.3    Storage Subsystem

12.2.4    InfiniBand Networking

12.2.5    Local and Wide Area Networking

12.2.6    System Software

12.3    User Environment

12.3.1    Programming Support Software

12.3.2    Resource ...