IBM Kittyhawk explained

Kittyhawk is an IBM supercomputer. The proposed project entails constructing a global-scale shared supercomputer capable of hosting the entire Internet on one platform as an application, whereas the current Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks.^{[1] [2]}

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. The open source version of Kittyhawk is available on a public website hosted by Boston University.^[3]

In 2012 the Kittyhawk project was made a part of the United States Department of Energy fault oblivious execution (FOX) project, and ported to run on the Intrepid supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory.^[4]

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.^{[5] [6]}

Specifications

IBM Research has published three papers^{[7] [8] [9]} detailing the project. Kittyhawk will be based on the previously developed IBM supercomputer called Blue Gene/P. In theory, Kittyhawk can have up to 16,384racks, for a total of 67.1million cores and 32PB (32×2⁵⁰ bytes) of memory.^[10]

See also

• List of IBM products

External links

• Current Kittyhawk Homepage (Boston University)
• Towards a Global Scale Public Computer — lecture given by IBM Engineer, Jonathan Appavoo at Stanford University (video archive).

Notes and References

1. Web site: IBM Proposes One Computer to Run Entire Internet . 2008-02-24 . 2008-03-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080314172047/http://www.dailytech.com/IBM+Proposes+One+Computer+to+Run+Entire+Internet/article10612.htm . dead .
2. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/one_computer_to.php One computer to rule them all
3. Web site: Open Source Kittyhawk . 2010-06-30 . 2011-04-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110429185523/http://kittyhawk.bu.edu/ . dead .
4. http://ascr-discovery.science.doe.gov/exascale/exa_fault4.shtml At exascale, being oblivious to a fault keeps apps running
5. http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/01/29/researchers-implement-hpc-first-cloud-approach/ Researchers Implement HPC-First Cloud Approach
6. http://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/researchers-describe-project-merge-cloud-computing-and-supercomputing Researchers Describe Project to Merge Cloud Computing and Supercomputing
7. http://kittyhawk.bu.edu/Papers/KittyhawkOSR08.pdf Project Kittyhawk: Building a Global-Scale Computer
8. http://www.cs.bu.edu/fac/jappavoo/Resources/Papers/appavoo-systemjournal-2009.pdf Kittyhawk: Enabling cooperation and competition in a global, shared computational system
9. http://kittyhawk.bu.edu/Papers/p03.pdf Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a Supercomputer
10. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/ibm_bluegene_web/ IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet