Contemporary High Performance Computing

Chapter 14

Kraken: The First Academic Petaflop Computer

Mark R. Fahey

National Institute for Computational Sciences, Industrial and Information Engineering Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Lonnie D. Crosby, Gary L. Rogers, and Victor G. Hazlewood

National Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee Knoxville

14.1    Overview

14.1.1    Program Background

14.1.2    Plan and Timeline

14.1.3    Further Upgrades to Kraken

14.1.4    Integration Activities

14.1.5    Acceptance Testing

14.1.6    System Overview

14.2    Computer Center

14.3    Hardware Architecture

14.3.1    Processor

14.3.2    Node Design

14.3.3    Memory

14.3.4    Interconnect

14.4    System Software

14.4.1    Operating System

14.4.2    System Administration ...