On the Appropriateness of Commodity Operating Systems for Large-Scale, Balanced Computing Systems

Authors:
Ron Brightwell;Arthur B. MacCabe;Rolf Riesen
Affiliations:
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Venue:
IPDPS '03 Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Year:
2003

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Abstract

In the past five years, we have been involved in the design and development of Cplant驴. An important goal was to take advantages of commodity approaches wherever possible. In particular, we selected Linux, a commonly available operating system, for the compute nodes. While the use of commodity solutions, including Linux, was critical to the success ofCplant驴, we believe that such an approach will not be viable in the development of the next generation of very large-scale systems. We present our definition of a balanced system and discuss several limitations of commodity operating systems in the context of balanced systems.