Evaluating the effect of replacing CNK with Linux on the compute-nodes of Blue Gene/L

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 165-174

  Shmueli, Edi ^a   Almási, George ^a   Brunheroto, Jose ^a   Castaños, Jose ^a   Dózsa, Gabor ^a   Kumar, Sameer ^a   Lieber, Derek ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BlueGene; CNK; Kernel; Linux; NPB

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTERS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

BLUEGENE; CNK; KERNEL; LINUX; NPB;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 57349151518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1375527.1375554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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