
Chapter 3
National Center for Supercomputing
Applications
William Kramer, Michelle Butler, Gregory Bauer, Kalyana
Chadalavada, and Celso Mendes
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing
Applications
3.1 The Blue Waters Computational and Analysis Subsystems .. . . . 18
3.2 Blue Waters On-line Storage Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.2.1 On-line Storage Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.3 Blue Waters Near-line Storage Subsystem and External Server
Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .