Kittyhawk is an IBM supercomputer. The proposed project entails constructing a global-scale shared supercomputer capable of hosting the entire Internet on one platform as an application, whereas the current Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks.[1][2]
In 2010 IBM open sourced the Linux kernel patches that allow otherwise unmodified Linux distributions to run on Blue Gene/P. This action allowed the Kittyhawk system software stack to be run at large scale at Argonne National Lab. The open source version of Kittyhawk is available on a public website hosted by Boston University.[3]
In 2012 the Kittyhawk project was made a part of the United States Department of Energy fault oblivious execution (FOX) project, and ported to run on the Intrepid supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory.[4]
In 2013 researchers used the Kittyhawk project to demonstrate a novel high-performance cloud computing platform by merging a cloud computing environment with a supercomputer. [5] [6]
Specifications
editIBM Research has published three papers[7][8][9] detailing the project. Kittyhawk will be based on the previously developed IBM supercomputer called Blue Gene/P. In theory, Kittyhawk can have up to 16,384 racks, for a total of 67.1 million cores and 32 PB (32 × 250 bytes) of memory.[10]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "IBM Proposes One Computer to Run Entire Internet". Archived from the original on 2008-03-14. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- ^ One computer to rule them all
- ^ "Open Source Kittyhawk". Archived from the original on 2011-04-29. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
- ^ "At exascale, being oblivious to a fault keeps apps running". Archived from the original on 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ Researchers Implement HPC-First Cloud Approach
- ^ Researchers Describe Project to Merge Cloud Computing and Supercomputing
- ^ Project Kittyhawk: Building a Global-Scale Computer[permanent dead link]
- ^ Kittyhawk: Enabling cooperation and competition in a global, shared computational system
- ^ "Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a Supercomputer" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet
External links
edit- Current Kittyhawk Homepage (Boston University) Archived 2011-04-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Towards a Global Scale Public Computer — lecture given by IBM Engineer, Jonathan Appavoo at Stanford University (video archive).