Kittyhawk is an
IBM supercomputer. The proposed project entails constructing a global-scale shared
supercomputer capable of
hosting the entire
Internet
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on one
platform
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Technology
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* Platform game, a genre of video games
* Car platform, a set of components shared by several vehicle models
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as an
application, 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
Argonne National Laboratory is a science and engineering research national laboratory operated by UChicago Argonne LLC for the United States Department of Energy. The facility is located in Lemont, Illinois, outside of Chicago, and is the larg ...
. 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.
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
Blue Gene is an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with low power consumption.
The project created three generations of supercomputers, Blue Gene/L, 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
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered ...
.
IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet
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See also
*List of IBM products
The following is a partial list of products, services, and subsidiaries of International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and its predecessor corporations, beginning in the 1890s.
This list is eclectic; it includes, for example, the ''AN/F ...
References
External links
Current Kittyhawk Homepage (Boston University)
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— lecture given by IBM Engineer, Jonathan Appavoo at Stanford University
video archive
.
Kittyhawk
Massively parallel computers