Dear Researcher,

On behalf of the Center for Computational Science and the Scientific
Computing and Visualization group in the Office of Information
Technology, we are very pleased to announce the recent addition
of an IBM  Blue Gene/L supercomputer to the University's Scientific
Computing Facility. This system represents a substantial enhancement 
to our facilities and provides us with one of the most powerful computing
platforms in the world. 

Our system is a single rack comprising 1024 dual-processor compute
nodes with an aggregate peak performance of 5.7 TFLOPS. Our machine
ranked 59th on the most recent TOP500 list of the fastest computers in the
world. Boston University was the fith site in the US and eighth site in the 
world to install a Blue Gene system. 

We have given a small number of "friendly users" accounts on the
machine in order to help us get it ready for the general user community.
Although we are not yet ready to open it to all users, we would like
to allow additional "friendly users" to have access as part of our
testing phase.  Our friendly-user guidelines can be viewed at
http://scv.bu.edu/scv/fug.html.  During the testing phase there is no
charge for CPU time.

Candidate users should have codes that have been parallelized using
MPI, and we can help with the porting process if need be.  Ideally,
the codes should scale well on large numbers of processors.  Codes
that currently run in the p4-mp32 queue would be good candidates.  If
you are interested in participating in this testing phase, please
reply to this e-mail, and we will give you further details.

--SCV