IBM System Blue Gene Solution: Blue Gene/Q Hardware Overview and Installation Planning

Overview of Blue Gene/Q components

This chapter provides an overview of the Blue Gene/Q system and describes the following system components:

•Service nodes

•Front end nodes

•File servers

•Networks

This chapter also introduces the following hardware components:

•Compute card

•Node board

•Midplane

•Service card

•I/O drawer

•Clock fanout card

•Compute rack

•I/O rack

•Cables

1.1 Blue Gene/Q system overview

The IBM Blue Gene/Q system is the third generation of massively parallel supercomputers in the IBM System Blue Gene Solution series. The Blue Gene/Q ...