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

IBM 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

  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
  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
  10. ↑ IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet
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