著者

Masamichi Takagi Balazs Gerofi Norio Yamaguchi Takahiro Ogura Toyohisa Kameyama Atsushi Hori Yutaka Ishikawa

雑誌

研究報告システム・アーキテクチャ(ARC) (ISSN:21888574)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2015-ARC-215, no.1, pp.1-8, 2015-05-19

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Processor core count in high-end computing has seen a steady increase during the past decade and next generation supercomputers will likely deploy many-core based systems. At the same time, from a software environment point of view, Linux-compatibility has become wide-spread in the High Performance Computing (HPC) domain. We consider the challenges of operating system (OS) design targeting next generation high-end computing. We believe that the most urging issues to be addressed are as follows. (1) Exploiting deep memory hierarchies, (2) Reducing cache pollution by OS services and minimizing OS noise, (3) Making it easy to design and deploy application specific kernels, (4) Providing a Linux compatible programming / run-time environment and (5) Enabling seamless tracking of upstream Linux kernel changes. We contend that existing approaches to HPC operating systems, which either employ a stripped down Linux environment or a specific light-weight kernel built from scratch, are not feasible to deal with these challenges. In this paper, we discuss the design decisions of our proposed hybrid kernel design for providing a Linux-compatible light-weight kernel.