Few works are as timely and critical to the advancement of high performance computing than is this new up-to-date treatise on leading-edge directions of operating systems. It is a first-hand product of many of the leaders in this rapidly evolving field and possibly the most comprehensive. This new and important book masterfully presents the major alternative concepts driving the future of operating system design for high performance computing. In particular, it describes the major advances of monolithic operating systems such as Linux and Unix that dominate the TOP500 list. It also presents the state of the art in lightweight kernels that exhibit high efficiency and scalability at the loss of generality. Finally, this work looks forward to possibly the most promising strategy of a hybrid structure combining full service functionality with lightweight kernel operation. With this, it is likely that this new work will find its way on the shelves of almost everyone who is in any way engaged in the multi-discipline of high performance computing. (From the foreword by Thomas Sterling)
Author(s): Balazs Gerofi, Yutaka Ishikawa, Rolf Riesen, Robert W. Wisniewski
Series: High-Performance Computing Series vol. 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 416
Tags: High Performance Computing, Operating Systems, Supercomputers
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Introduction to HPC Operating Systems (Balazs Gerofi, Yutaka Ishikawa, Rolf Riesen, Robert W. Wisniewski)....Pages 3-15
Front Matter ....Pages 17-17
Overview: The Birth of Lightweight Kernels (Rolf Riesen, Balazs Gerofi, Yutaka Ishikawa, Robert W. Wisniewski)....Pages 19-21
Sandia Line of LWKs (Ron Brightwell, Kurt Ferreira, Arthur B. Maccabe, Kevin Pedretti, Rolf Riesen)....Pages 23-46
Hitachi HI-UX/MPP Series (Masaaki Shimizu)....Pages 47-70
Blue Gene Line of LWKs (Thomas Gooding, Bryan Rosenburg, Mark Giampapa, Todd Inglett, Robert W. Wisniewski)....Pages 71-91
Front Matter ....Pages 93-93
Overview: The Rise of Linux (Rolf Riesen, Balazs Gerofi, Yutaka Ishikawa, Robert W. Wisniewski)....Pages 95-98
Cray Compute Node Linux (Larry Kaplan, Jim Harrell)....Pages 99-120
SCore (Atsushi Hori, Hiroshi Tezuka, Shinji Sumimoto, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Hiroshi Harada, Mitsuhisa Sato et al.)....Pages 121-138
NEC Earth Simulator and the SX-Aurora TSUBASA (Teruyuki Imai)....Pages 139-160
ZeptoOS (Kamil Iskra, Kazutomo Yoshii, Pete Beckman)....Pages 161-181
K Computer (Takeharu Kato, Kouichi Hirai)....Pages 183-197
Argo (Swann Perarnau, Brian C. Van Essen, Roberto Gioiosa, Kamil Iskra, Maya B. Gokhale, Kazutomo Yoshii et al.)....Pages 199-220
Front Matter ....Pages 221-221
A New Age: An Overview of Multi-kernels (Rolf Riesen, Balazs Gerofi, Yutaka Ishikawa, Robert W. Wisniewski)....Pages 223-226
FusedOS (Yoonho Park, Bryan Rosenburg, Robert W. Wisniewski)....Pages 227-239
Hobbes: A Multi-kernel Infrastructure for Application Composition (Brian Kocoloski, John Lange, Kevin Pedretti, Ron Brightwell)....Pages 241-267
NIX (Ron Minnich)....Pages 269-290
IHK/McKernel (Balazs Gerofi, Masamichi Takagi, Yutaka Ishikawa)....Pages 291-306
mOS for HPC (Rolf Riesen, Robert W. Wisniewski)....Pages 307-334
FFMK: An HPC OS Based on the L4Re Microkernel (Carsten Weinhold, Adam Lackorzynski, Hermann Härtig)....Pages 335-357
HermitCore (Stefan Lankes, Simon Pickartz, Jens Breibart)....Pages 359-374
Back Matter ....Pages 375-400
