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Abstract
This IBM® Redbooks® publication is one in a series of IBM books written specifically for the IBM System Blue Gene® supercomputer, Blue Gene/Q®, which is the third generation of massively parallel supercomputers from IBM in the Blue Gene series. This document provides an overview of the application development environment for the Blue Gene/Q system. It describes the requirements to develop applications on this high-performance supercomputer.
This book explains the unique Blue Gene/Q programming environment. This book does not provide detailed descriptions of the technologies that are commonly used in the supercomputing industry, such as Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP). References to more detailed information about programming and technology are provided.
This document assumes that readers have a strong background in high-performance computing (HPC) programming. The high-level programming languages that are used throughout this book are C/C++ and Fortran95. For more information about the Blue Gene/Q system, see "IBM Redbooks" on page 133.
Table of contents
Chapter 1. System overview
Chapter 2 Kernel functionality
Chapter 3. Processes
Chapter 4. Memory
Chapter 5. Compute Node Kernel interfaces
Chapter 6. Parallel paradigms
Chapter 7. Developing applications with Blue Gene/Q compilers
Chapter 8. Running and debugging applications
Appendix A. Mapping
Appendix B. Blue Gene/Q personality
Appendix C. PAMI and MPI header files and libraries
Appendix D. MPI and CNK environment variables
Appendix E. Using GNU profiling
Appendix F. Hardware performance counters
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