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Catamount

Known as: Catamount operating system, Cray Catamount 
Catamount is an operating system for supercomputers. Catamount is a lightweight kernel that provides basic functionality and aims for efficiency. The… (More)
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2010
2010
To upgrade or not to upgrade? Catamount vs. Cray Linux Environment
Modern supercomputers are growing in diversity and complexity - the arrival of technologies such as multi-core processors… (More)
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2009
2009
Topics on measuring real power usage on high performance computing platforms
Power has recently been recognized as one of the major obstacles in fielding a Peta-FLOPs class system. To reach Exa-FLOPs, the… (More)
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2008
2008
Exploring Memory Management Strategies in Catamount
In this paper, we describe how the mapping of virtual to physical memory that is set up by the operating system can have a… (More)
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2008
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2008
Characterizing application sensitivity to OS interference using kernel-level noise injection
Operating system noise has been shown to be a key limiter of application scalability in high-end systems. While several studies… (More)
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2008
2008
SMARTMAP: Operating system support for efficient data sharing among processes on a multi-core processor
This paper describes SMARTMAP, an operating system technique that implements fixed offset virtual memory addressing. SMARTMAP… (More)
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2006
2006
Catamount Software Architecture with Dual Core Extensions
Catamount is the light weight kernel operating system running on the compute nodes of Cray XT3 systems. It is designed to be a… (More)
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2006
2006
Performance and Memory Evaluation Using TAU
The TAU performance system is an integrated performance instrumentation, measurement, and analysis toolkit offering support for… (More)
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2006
2006
Poster reception - Network performance impact of a lightweight Linux for Cray XT3 compute nodes
This poster describes initial performance results comparing a tuned lightweight Linux environment to the standard Catamount… (More)
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2006
2006
An Evaluation of the ORNL Cray XT3
In 2005, Oak Ridge National Laboratory received delivery of a 5,294 processor Cray XT3. The XT3 is Cray’s third-generation… (More)
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2005
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2005
Software Architecture of the Light Weight Kernel, Catamount
Catamount is designed to be a low overhead operating system for a parallel computing environment. Functionality is limited to the… (More)
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