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The following chapter covers the design and implementation of the lightweight kernels in the Blue Gene family of supercomputers. This lightweight kernel, known as Compute Node Kernel (CNK ), provides a high-degree Linux compatibility and supports many Linux-like system calls and a familiar application environment. File and socket I/O is provided by function shipping those system calls to a process running on a Linux-based I/O node.
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Gooding, T., Rosenburg, B., Giampapa, M., Inglett, T., Wisniewski, R.W. (2019). Blue Gene Line of LWKs. In: Gerofi, B., Ishikawa, Y., Riesen, R., Wisniewski, R.W. (eds) Operating Systems for Supercomputers and High Performance Computing. High-Performance Computing Series, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6624-6_5
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