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Lightweight operating system kernels (LWKs), as we define them today (Riesen et al, Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on runtime and operating systems for supercomputers, ROSS ’15, 2015) for high-end high-performance computing (HPC) systems, started to appear in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Supercomputers, and the applications that made use of them, had specific requirements and challenges that made multi-user workstation operating systems (OSs) unsuitable for these machines.
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Riesen, R., Gerofi, B., Ishikawa, Y., Wisniewski, R.W. (2019). Overview: The Birth of Lightweight 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_2
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