SUPER-UX
DeveloperNEC
OS familyUnix System V
Working stateDiscontinued
Latest releaseR21.1 [1] [2] / March 2014; 9 years ago (2014-03)
Marketing targetSupercomputing
PlatformsNEC SX supercomputers
LicenseProprietary

SUPER-UX was a version of the Unix operating system from NEC that is used on its SX series of supercomputers.[3]

History

The initial version of SUPER-UX was based on UNIX System V version 3.1 with features from BSD 4.3.[4][5][6] The version for the NEC SX-9 was based on SVR4.2MP with BSD enhancements.[7]

Features

SUPER-UX is a 64-bit UNIX operating system.[4] It supports the Supercomputer File System (SFS).[4]

Earth Simulator

The Earth Simulator uses a custom OS called "ESOS" (Earth Simulator Operating System) based on SUPER-UX.[8][9][10] It has many enhanced features custom designed for the Earth Simulator which are not in the regular SUPER-UX OS.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ SUPER-UX documentation
  2. ^ Kernel Correction
  3. ^ Watanabe, Tadashi (1993). "NEC SX-3 Supercomputer System". Supercomputers and Their Performance in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Vol. 37. pp. 63–75. doi:10.1007/978-3-322-87863-2_4. ISBN 978-3-528-07637-5.
  4. ^ a b c Nishino, H.; Naka, S.; Ikumi, K.; Leslie, W. (1989). "High performance file system for supercomputing environment" (PDF). Proceedings of the 1989 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing - Supercomputing '89. pp. 747–756. doi:10.1145/76263.76348. ISBN 0897913418. S2CID 1220077. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  5. ^ Hammond, S.W.; Loft, R.D.; Tannenbaum, P.D. (1996). "Architecture and Application: The Performance of the NEC SX-4 on the NCAR Benchmark Suite" (PDF). Supercomputing '96:Proceedings of the 1996 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing. doi:10.1109/SC.1996.5. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  6. ^ IWAYA, AKIHIRO; WATANABE, TADASHI (September 1991). "The Parallel Processing Feature of the NEC SX-3 Supercomputer System". International Journal of High Speed Computing. 03 (3n04): 187–197. doi:10.1142/S0129053391000085.
  7. ^ TOMARU, Hiroku; MIYAZAKI, Emiko; OHTANI, Atsuhisa; SATAKE, Koji; SAKAI, Satoshi; KITAGAWA, Toshiyuki. "Outline of the SUPER-UX, Operating System for the SX-9" (PDF). NEC. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  8. ^ a b Uno, Atsuya (2005). "Software of the Earth Simulator". Journal of the Earth Simulator. 3: 52–59. Bibcode:2005JES.....3...52U. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.528.9349. doi:10.32131/jes.3.59 (inactive 1 August 2023).((cite journal)): CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2023 (link)
  9. ^ Yanagawa, Takashi; Suehiro, Kenji (December 2004). "Software system of the Earth Simulator". Parallel Computing. 30 (12): 1315–1327. doi:10.1016/j.parco.2004.09.005.
  10. ^ Carter, Jonathan; Oliker, Leonid; Shalf, John (10 June 2006). "Performance Evaluation of Scientific Applications on Modern Parallel Vector Systems" (PDF). High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4395. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 490–503. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-71351-7_38. ISBN 978-3-540-71350-0.

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