SUPER-UX was a version of the
Unix
Unix (, ; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, a ...
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...
from
NEC
is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Inte ...
that is used on its
SX series of
supercomputer
A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instruc ...
s.
History
The initial version of SUPER-UX was based on
UNIX System V
Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and first released in 1983. Four major versions of System V were released, numbered 1, 2, 3, an ...
version 3.1 with features from
BSD
The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix or BSD Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, beginni ...
4.3.
The version for the
NEC SX-9
The SX-9 is a NEC SX supercomputer built by NEC Corporation. The SX-9 Series implements an Symmetric multiprocessing, SMP system in a compact node module and uses an enhanced version of the single chip vector processor that was introduced wi ...
was based on
SVR4.2MP with BSD enhancements.
Features
SUPER-UX is a 64-bit UNIX operating system.
It supports the Supercomputer File System (SFS).
Earth Simulator
The
Earth Simulator uses a custom OS called "ESOS" (Earth Simulator Operating System) based on SUPER-UX.
It has many enhanced features custom designed for the Earth Simulator which are not in the regular SUPER-UX OS.
See also
*
EWS-UX
References
External links
NEC Europe HPCNEC Japan HPC
UNIX System V
NEC supercomputers
Supercomputer operating systems
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