Overview
Motivation
The design of the Blue Gene was originally motivated by the desire to study biomolecular such as protein folding. Here is an article explaining that motivating application:Blue Gene: A vision for protein science using a petaflop supercomputer, F. Allen et al., IBM Systems Journal, 40, no. 2 (2001) [article]
Select Applications
Following is a list of a small selection of applications of the Blue Gene/L and Blue Gene/P since then, with randomly selected references. We encourage additions to this list.For a discussion of several applications on the Blue Gene/P, see the following:
Early evaluation of IBM BlueGene/P, S. Alam et al., in Proceedings of the 2008 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing, article 23, 2008, [article] (reviews fusion, climate modeling, and combustion)
Astrophysics
Video simulates a spectacular supernova, C. Thomas, Cosmos, 9 May 2008, [article]
Blue Gene/P supercomputer to simulate extreme physics of expoding stars FirstScience News, 2 May 2008, [article]
Climate Modeling
Toward an Ultra-high resolution Community Climate System Model for the BlueGene Platform, J. M. Dennis et al., Journal of Physics: Conference Series 78 (2007) 012030 Combustion LES of combustion on massively parallel machines, Dec. 2008, [article]
Computational Chemistry
A molecular approach to understanding complex systems: computational statistical mechanics using state-of-the-art algorithms on terascale computational platforms, C. Mundy et al., Journal of Physics: Conference Series 125 (2008) 012014
Genome Sequencing
Massively parallel genomic sequence search on the Blue Gene/P architecture, H. Lin et al., Proc. Of the 2008 ACM/IEEE conference on supercomputing, 2008, article 33, [article]
Materials Science
Qbox revs BlueGene's performance, DOE Pulse, 213, 13 July 2006, [article]
Scaling physics and material science applications on a massively parallel Blue Gene/L system, G. Almasi et al., in Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Supercomputing, 2005, pp. 246-252 [article]
Nanoscience
Science at the Nanoscale, Interview with Stanley Williams, HP Senior Fellow and Director of IQSL, Hewlett-Packard, SciDAC Review 10 (Winer 2008) 8-13
Neocortex Modeling
BlueGene L Supercomputer Mimicking Brain Functioning, [article], May 2007
Brain-scale simulation of the neocortex on the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer, M. Djurfeldt et al., IBM J of Research and Development 52(1-2) 2008, [article]
Nuclear Physics
QCD and the BlueGene, Pavlos Vrana, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 78 012080 [ARTICLE]
Nuclear Reactor Simulation
Petascale algorithms for reactor hydrodynamics, Paul Fischer, James Lottes, David Pointer and Andrew Siegel, Journal of Physics: conference Series 125 (2008) 012076
Protein Folding
IBM’s Blue Gene Exploring Protein Folding Mystery, Techglimpse, [article]
Tools
Daresbury Laboratory chooses TotalView for application development on the Blue Gene/P, PrimeUR, 7 October 2008, [article]
FALKON: A Fast and Lightweight Task Execution Framework, [article]
Visualization
Visualization and parallel I/O at extreme scale, Peterka T, Yu H, Ross R and Ma K-L 2008 Parallel volume rendering on the IBM Blue Gene/P Proc. Eurographics Parallel Graphics and Visualization Symposium 2008