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The SX-Linux Project: A Progress Report

In: High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2009

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  • Erich Focht

    (NEC HPC Europe)

  • Jaka Močnik

    (XLAB Research)

  • Fredrik Unger

    (NEC HPC Europe)

  • Danny Sternkopf

    (NEC HPC Europe)

  • Marko Novak

    (XLAB Research)

  • Thomas Grossmann

    (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS))

Abstract

The increasing appeal of hybrid computer architectures built of components specialized for different purposes and types of programs motivated this project that is aimed at integrating the NEC SX architecture more easily with hardware running the Linux operating system. Users of the NEC SX vector computers should be presented a Linux-like environment that simplifies the usage and porting of code developed on Linux workstations, and allows the use of parallel filesystems like Lustre directly from applications running on the SX nodes. The project is a collaboration of HLRS and NEC EHPCTC Stuttgart and has started in the first half of the year 2008. This paper reports the progress after one year of work with a team of up to 6 people: a working open source toolchain with binutils and the C compiler of the GNU Compiler collection ported to the SX, a simple free C library usable for testing, progress on the GNU C++ compiler, an I/O forwarding infrastructure that allows SX programs to do I/O to files visible on Linux servers, and a running light weight kernel derived from Linux code, that is a sane basis for developing a high performance specialized compute node kernel for the NEC SX machines.

Suggested Citation

  • Erich Focht & Jaka Močnik & Fredrik Unger & Danny Sternkopf & Marko Novak & Thomas Grossmann, 2010. "The SX-Linux Project: A Progress Report," Springer Books, in: Michael Resch & Sabine Roller & Katharina Benkert & Martin Galle & Wolfgang Bez & Hiroaki Kobayashi (ed.), High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2009, pages 79-96, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-03913-3_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03913-3_8
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