Hobbes: Composition and virtualization as the foundations of an extreme-scale OS/R

Ron Brightwell, Ron Oldfield, Arthur B. Maccabe, David E. Bernholdt

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Abstract

This paper describes our vision for Hobbes, an operating system and runtime (OS/R) framework for extreme-scale systems. The Hobbes design explicitly supports application composition, which is emerging as a key approach for applications to address scalability and power concerns anticipated with coming extreme-scale architectures. We make use of virtualization technologies to provide the flexibility to support requirements of application components for different node-level operating systems and runtimes, as well as different mappings of the components onto the hardware. We describe the architecture of the Hobbes OS/R, how we will address the cross-cutting concerns of power/energy, scheduling of massive levels of parallelism, and resilience. We also outline how the "users" of the OS/R (programming models, applications, and tools) influence the design.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers, ROSS 2013 - In Conjunction with ICS 2013
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event3rd International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers, ROSS 2013 - In Conjunction with ICS 2013 - Eugene, OR, United States
Duration: Jun 10 2013Jun 10 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers, ROSS 2013 - In Conjunction with ICS 2013

Conference

Conference3rd International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers, ROSS 2013 - In Conjunction with ICS 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityEugene, OR
Period06/10/1306/10/13

Keywords

  • application composition
  • operating system
  • supercomputing
  • virtualization

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