Palacios and kitten: New high performance operating systems for scalable virtualized and native supercomputing

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IPDPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lange, John ^a   Pedretti, Kevin ^b   Hudson, Trammell ^b   Dinda, Peter ^a   Cui, Zheng ^c   Xia, Lei ^a   Bridges, Patrick ^c   Gocke, Andy ^a   Jaconette, Steven ^a   Levenhagen, Mike ^b   Brightwell, Ron ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirtual machine monitors; High performance computing; Lightweight kernels; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INTEL PROCESSORS; LARGE MACHINES; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; MODULARIZED; NATIVE ENVIRONMENT; NEW HIGH; NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY; OPEN-SOURCE; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL COMPUTING; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; SCALABLE PERFORMANCE; SUPERCOMPUTING APPLICATIONS; THIN LAYERS; UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 77954005825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2010.5470482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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