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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.