Kittyhawk is an
IBM
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supercomputer
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. The proposed project entails constructing a global-scale shared
supercomputer
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capable of
hosting the entire
Internet
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on one
platform
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as an
application
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, whereas the current Internet is a collection of interconnected
computer networks
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.
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.
In 2012 the Kittyhawk project was made a part of the
United States Department of Energy
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fault oblivious execution (FOX) project, and ported to run on the Intrepid supercomputer at
Argonne National Laboratory
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.
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.
Specifications
IBM Research has published three papers detailing the project. Kittyhawk will be based on the previously developed IBM supercomputer called
Blue Gene/P. In theory, Kittyhawk can have up to 16,384racks, for a total of 67.1million
cores and 32
PB (32×2
50 bytes) of
memory
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.
IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet
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See also
*List of IBM products
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Context
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References
External links
Current Kittyhawk Homepage (Boston University)
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— lecture given by IBM Engineer, Jonathan Appavoo at Stanford University
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video archive
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Kittyhawk
Massively parallel computers