IBM Kittyhawk
| Company type | Initiative |
|---|---|
| Industry | Supercomputing, Cloud computing |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Founder | IBM |
Area served | Global |
| Products | Supercomputer platform, Software stack |
| Parent | IBM |
Kittyhawk represents an IBM initiative focused on developing a supercomputer with the capacity to function as a unified global system, capable of hosting the entire Internet as a single application, in contrast to the conventional distributed architecture of today's Internet.
In 2010, IBM released Linux kernel patches as open source, allowing standard Linux distributions to operate without modification on Blue Gene/P hardware. This advancement supported extensive deployment of the Kittyhawk software stack at Argonne National Lab. The open source release is maintained and publicly accessible through Boston University.
By 2012, Kittyhawk was incorporated into the United States Department of Energy's fault oblivious execution (FOX) initiative and adapted to run on the Intrepid supercomputer located at Argonne National Laboratory.
In 2013, the Kittyhawk platform was utilized by researchers to showcase an innovative high-performance cloud computing system that merges cloud infrastructure with supercomputing resources.
Specifications
IBM Research has authored three technical papers on Kittyhawk, which expands upon the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer architecture. The design theoretically supports scaling up to 16,384 racks, encompassing a total of 67.1 million cores and 32nbspPB of memory.
See also
External links
- Official Kittyhawk Website (Boston University)
- Towards a Global Scale Public Computer — presentation by IBM engineer Jonathan Appavoo at Stanford University (video archive).