Title :
Fire Phoenix Cluster Operating System Kernel and its Evaluation
Author :
Zhan, Jianfeng ; Sun, Ninghui
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Technol., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing
Abstract :
Fire Phoenix cluster operating system kernel (Phoenix kernel) is a minimum set of cluster core junctions with scalability and fault-tolerance support. In this paper, we define components of cluster operating system kernel, and introduce its internal mechanism for scalability and fault-tolerance support. Based on Phoenix kernel, user environments can be easily constructed according to users´ needs. In addition, we evaluate Phoenix kernel from four different perspectives, such as fault-tolerance, scalability, performance impact on scientific computing, and easiness of constructing user environment. Our design has been proved in the practices of Dawning 4000A super server, which is the biggest cluster system for scientific computing in China
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; natural sciences computing; network operating systems; operating system kernels; software performance evaluation; Fire Phoenix cluster operating system kernel; OS kernel evaluation; cluster core junctions; fault-tolerance; scalability; scientific computing; user environment construction ease; Application software; Computer architecture; Fault tolerant systems; Fires; Kernel; Operating systems; Packaging; Scalability; Scientific computing; System software;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing, 2005. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Burlington, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9486-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1552-5244
DOI :
10.1109/CLUSTR.2005.347066
