SUPER-UX is a version of the
Unix
Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser 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, and ot ...
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also in ...
from
NEC
is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It prov ...
that is used on its
SX series of
supercomputer
A supercomputer is a 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 instructions ...
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 or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berk ...
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 SMP system in a compact node module and uses an enhanced version of the single chip vector processor that was introduced with the SX-6. The NEC SX-9 ...
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
The is a series of supercomputers deployed at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Yokohama Institute of Earth Sciences.
Earth Simulator (first generation)
The first generation of Earth Simulator, developed by the Japanese go ...
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
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EWS-UX
EWS-UX is a Unix operating system used by NEC Corporation for its EWS-4800 line of engineering workstations. EWS-UX is based largely on versions of Unix System V supplemented with BSD software. It was widely used from the late 1980s to around 200 ...
References
External links
NEC Europe HPCNEC Japan HPC
UNIX System V
NEC supercomputers
Supercomputer operating systems
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