A global operating system for HPC clusters

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Betti, Emiliano ^a   Cesati, Marco ^a   Gioiosa, Roberto ^b   Piermaria, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZED NETWORKS; CHECK POINTING; GLOBAL CONTROL; HPC CLUSTERS; LINUX KERNEL; NEW COMPONENTS; OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SPECIFIC TASKS; TEMPORAL SYNCHRONIZATION; USER MODE;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; SCALABILITY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 72049108089     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2009.5289191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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