On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:37:15PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > If we really, truly, wanted to run our programs as fast as they > possibly could, we wouldn't really use "a kernel" at all. We would > write bootloaders that ran our applications, each one custom > compiled for a very specific hardware platform, directly on the > hardware.
This is pretty much exactly what IBM has on their bluegene compute nodes. ==rob -- Rob Latham Mathematics and Computer Science Division A215 0178 EA2D B059 8CDF Argonne National Lab, IL USA B29D F333 664A 4280 315B _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
