[Beowulf] Any open source OS like IBM's CNK?

"C. Bergström" cbergstrom at pathscale.com
Fri Apr 11 09:30:19 PDT 2014


On 04/11/14 10:52 PM, Mark Hahn wrote:
>> I'm exploring tiny OS, in-house homebrew and anything non-heavy (aka 
>> linux) for Xeon PHI. Does anyone on the list know of any open source 
>> work for
>
> I'm curious what you think the win will be.
>
Good question - I'd call this project more "for fun" than anything else 
at this point.

Hopefully it will allow us to easily test different on-card schedulers. 
(We are already working on userland (host) scheduling). I've seen 
numerous cases where "linux" doesn't scale well on many-core systems.



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