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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

17. IHK/McKernel

Authors : Balazs Gerofi, Masamichi Takagi, Yutaka Ishikawa

Published in: Operating Systems for Supercomputers and High Performance Computing

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

IHK/McKernel is a lightweight multi-kernel operating system that is designed for extreme-scale HPC systems. The basic idea of IHK/McKernel is to run Linux and a lightweight kernel (LWK) side by side on each compute node to provide both LWK scalability and full Linux compatibility. IHK/McKernel is one of the first multi-kernels that has been evaluated at large scale and that has demonstrated the advantages of the multi-kernel approach. This chapter describes the architecture of IHK/McKernel, provides insights into some of its unique features, and describes its ability to outperform Linux through experiments. We also discuss our experiences and lessons learned so far.

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Metadata
Title
IHK/McKernel
Authors
Balazs Gerofi
Masamichi Takagi
Yutaka Ishikawa
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Operating Systems for Supercomputers and High Performance Computing

Print ISBN: 978-981-13-6623-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-13-6624-6

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6624-6_17

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