Towards a framework for dedicated operating systems development in high-end computing systems

Authors:
Jean-Charles Tournier;Patrick G. Bridges;Arthur B. MacCabe;Patrick M. Widener;Zaid Abudayyeh;Ron Brightwell;Rolf Riesen;Trammel Hudson
Affiliations:
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM;University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM;University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM;University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM;Operating Systems Research, Inc., Albuquerque, NM
Venue:
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In the context of high-end computing systems, general-purpose operating systems impose overhead on the applications they support due to unneeded services. Although dedicated operating systems overcome this issue, they are difficult to develop or adapt. In this paper, we propose a framework, based on the component programming paradigm, which supports the development and adaptation of such operating systems. This framework makes possible the a la carte construction of operating systems which provide specific high-end computing system characteristics.