JUQUEEN

JUQUEEN is located at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.

JUQUEEN has become an old lady. The successor system will arrive and be installed in the first half of 2018. More information about this system can be found in the press release “Who will follow JUQUEEN to the throne“.

How to get access to JUQUEEN

JUQUEEN in JUELICH

Architecture IBM Blue Gene/Q system
Peak performance 5.9 PFlops
System configuration
  • 28 racks (7 rows à 4 racks) – 28,672 nodes (458,752 cores)
  • Rack: 2 midplanes à 16 nodeboards (16,384 cores)
  • Nodeboard: 32 compute nodes
  • Node: 16 cores
Processors IBM PowerPC® A2, 1.6 GHz, 16 cores per node
Memory 16 GB SDRAM-DDR3 per node
Main memory 448 TB
Networks
  • 5D Torus — 40 GB/s; 2.5 μsec latency (worst case)
  • Collective network — part of the 5D Torus; collective logic operations
    supported
  • Global Barrier/Interrupt — part of 5D Torus, PCIe x8 Gen2 based I/O
  • 1 GB Control Network — System Boot, Debug, Monitoring
I/O
  • 248 I/O nodes (27×8 + 1×32) connected to 2 CISCO Switches
  • I/O Nodes (10 GbE): 16-way SMP processor; configurable in 8, 16 or 32 I/O nodes per rack
Operating system
  • Compute nodes: Compute Node Kernel (CNK), lightweight proprietary kernel
  • Login nodes: RedHat Linux v6.2
Job scheduler LoadLeveler
Login nodes
  • Total number of processors: 16
  • Processor type: Power7, 8C, 3.55 GHz
  • Total amount of memory: 128 GB
  • Internet address of login node: juqueen.fz-juelich.de
More information http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/juqueen
Contact HBP-HPC-Platform@fz-juelich.de