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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.

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.

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.

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.

Specifications

IBM Research has published three papers 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 × 2 bytes) of memory.

See also

References

  1. "IBM Proposes One Computer to Run Entire Internet". Archived from the original on 2008-03-14. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
  2. One computer to rule them all
  3. "Open Source Kittyhawk". Archived from the original on 2011-04-29. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  4. "At exascale, being oblivious to a fault keeps apps running". Archived from the original on 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
  5. Researchers Implement HPC-First Cloud Approach
  6. Researchers Describe Project to Merge Cloud Computing and Supercomputing
  7. Project Kittyhawk: Building a Global-Scale Computer
  8. Kittyhawk: Enabling cooperation and competition in a global, shared computational system
  9. "Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a Supercomputer" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
  10. IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet

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