
List of Figures
2.1 NERSC compute and storage systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 Edison local scratch diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3 NERSC global file system architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.4 NERSC application codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.1 The Blue Waters computational analysis subsystem. . . . . 20
3.2 The Blue Waters network subsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.3 The total Blue Waters I/O bandwidth is greater than 1.18
TB/s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.4 Blue Waters I/O performance tests scaled with the number of
client nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .