CNK operating system

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The IBM Blue Gene compute hierarchy. A CNK instance runs on each of the compute nodes.

Compute Node Kernel (CNK) is the node level operating system for the IBM Blue Gene series of supercomputers.[1][2]

Operating system

The compute nodes of the IBM Blue Gene family of supercomputers run CNK, a

cycles as possible to application processing.[2]

CNK delegates file input/output (I/O) to dedicated I/O nodes which run the INK (I/O Node Kernel) operating system, based on a modified Linux kernel.[2]

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