HPC System Call Usage Trends
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The changing landscape of high performance computing (HPC) hardware and applications poses a constant challenge to operating system architects. In this paper, we assess operating system evolution on the basis of several key factors related to system call functionality. Results are presented for Linux and Linux-like lightweight kernels. Comparisons are made with several other operating systems employed in high performance computing environments including AIX, HP-UX, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD. Results are provided in tabular form. To our knowledge, this is the first such compilation of system call trends.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007