A Multi-Kernel Survey for High-Performance Computing
Balazs Gerofi, Yutaka Ishikawa, Rolf Riesen, Robert W. Wisniewski, Yoonho Park, Bryan S. Rosenburg · 2016
In HPC, two trends have led to the emergence and popularity of an operating-system approach in which multiple kernels are run simultaneously on each compute node. The first trend has been the increase in complexity of the HPC software environment, which has placed the traditional HPC kernel approaches under stress. Meanwhile, microprocessors with more and more cores are being produced, allowing specialization within a node. As is typical in an emerging field, different groups are considering many different approaches to deploying multi-kernels.