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In the previous two parts of this book, we studied various lightweight kernel (LWK) projects, learned why they have been largely replaced by Linux on production systems, and looked at efforts to make Unix/Linux more suitable for highly parallel High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. In this part, we present projects that combine a full-weight Operating System (OS) with an LWK on a single compute node (Gerofi et al. 2016).
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Riesen, R., Gerofi, B., Ishikawa, Y., Wisniewski, R.W. (2019). A New Age: An Overview of Multi-kernels. 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_13
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