Fast-OS PetaScale Linux
EMSL Project ID
11096
Abstract
Peta-scale computers with thousands of times more computational power will be available to scientists by the end of this decade. The research and development of these next generationcomputing architectures and the corresponding computing environments will accelerate scientific discoveries within the Office of Science as well as within the high-end computing
community in general. The overwhelming size and complexity of a peta-scale system will require a computing environment that addresses the scalability of the file system, a network that facilitates communications across the scale of processors, and an aggressive approach for dealing with operating system noise. We believe the best way to reach this environment is to scale a
single system image Linux environment to 100,000 processors. We propose fundamental research and development using the Open Single System Image (OpenSSI) project as a baseline
to provide a balanced solution to accomplish the goals outlined in this proposal. OpenSSI is an open source project maintained by Bruce Walker (Co-PI of this proposal) which provides a
single root file system and single process space across distributed resources. OpenSSI is a full
implementation of the single system image and has a more fault tolerant peer-to-peer communication system than other implementations available.
Project Details
Project type
Exploratory Research
Start Date
2004-08-30
End Date
2005-09-20
Status
Closed
Released Data Link
Team
Principal Investigator