IBM System Blue Gene Solution Blue Gene/Q Application Development

System overview

This chapter provides an overview of the IBM Blue Gene/Q system and its software environment. It includes the following sections:

•Blue Gene/Q environment overview

•Blue Gene/Q hardware overview

•Blue Gene/Q software overview

1.1 Blue Gene/Q environment overview

The Blue Gene/Q system, shown in Figure 1-1, is the third-generation computer architecture in the Blue Gene family of supercomputers.

Figure 1-1 Blue Gene/Q system architecture ...