[ASL
News] [ASL Documents]
[ASL Contacts] [Acknowledgements]
Linux has emerged as the system-of-choice in
academic and production scientific computing settings. A key
limitation to the use of Linux for high-end cluster computing however
is its potential performance impact on application execution, since
Linux dictate general policies that do not promote the performance of
high-end scientific applications.
In our Project, we are presenting Application
Specific Linux (ASL), a customized Linux image that enhances the
performance of scientific applications. Our Research end-goal is a
software system that automatically enables high performance scientific
computing on commodity systems through application-specific
customization and dynamic adaptation of the Linux OS. Our research is
novel in that it combines the research done in OS specialization,
extensibility and minimization as well as virtual machine monitors (VMMs)
into a system that automatically customizes the kernel image for a
single application run and is specifically focused on the application
domain of scientific computing using high-performance clusters.
ASL News
ASL Documents
ASL Contacts
Rich Wolski [rich
at cs.ucsb.edu]
Chandra Krintz
[ckrintz at cs.ucsb.edu]
Lamia Youseff
[lyouseff at cs.ucsb.edu]
ASL Acknowledgements
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