A performance comparison of linux and a lightweight kernel

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 251-258

  Brightwell, Ron ^a   Riesen, Rolf ^a   Underwood, Keith ^a   Hudson, Trammell B ^b   Bridges, Patrick ^c   Maccabe, Arthur B ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Operating Systems Research Inc   (United States)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; HARDWARE; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

LARGE-SCALE SUPERCOMPUTERS; LINUX- OPERATING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITIES; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; SERVICE NODES;

LINUX;

EID: 57349114431     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2003.1253322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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