SUPER-UX

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SUPER-UX
Developer NEC
OS family Unix System V
Working stateDiscontinued
Latest release R21.1 [1] [2] / March 2014;11 years ago (2014-03)
Marketing target Supercomputing
Instruction sets NEC SX supercomputers
License Proprietary

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

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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 [ dead link ]
  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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 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 12 July 2025).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (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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