Towards a Practical Ecosystem of Specialized OS Kernels

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers Pub Date : 2019-06-17 DOI:10.1145/3322789.3328742

Conghao Liu, Kyle C. Hale

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Specialized operating systems have enjoyed a recent revival driven both by a pressing need to rethink the system software stack in several domains and by the convenience and flexibility that on-demand infrastructure and virtual execution environments offer. Several barriers exist which curtail the widespread adoption of such highly specialized systems, but perhaps the most consequential of them is that these systems are simply difficult to use. In this paper we discuss the challenges faced by specialized OSes, both for HPC and more broadly, and argue that what is needed to make them practically useful is a reasonable development and deployment model that will form the foundation for a kernel ecosystem that allows intrepid developers to discover, experiment with, contribute to, and write programs for available kernel frameworks while safely ignoring complexities such as provisioning, deployment, cross-compilation, and interface compatibility. We argue that such an ecosystem would allow more developers of highly tuned applications to reap the performance benefits of specialized kernels.

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迈向专业操作系统内核的实用生态系统

由于迫切需要重新考虑几个领域的系统软件堆栈，以及按需基础设施和虚拟执行环境提供的便利性和灵活性，专用操作系统最近得到了复兴。存在一些阻碍这种高度专门化系统广泛采用的障碍，但其中最重要的可能是这些系统很难使用。在本文中，我们讨论了专门的操作系统所面临的挑战，无论是对于HPC还是更广泛的领域，并认为使它们实际有用所需要的是一个合理的开发和部署模型，它将形成一个内核生态系统的基础，使勇敢的开发人员能够发现、实验、贡献和编写可用内核框架的程序，同时安全地忽略诸如配置、部署、交叉编译等复杂性。以及接口兼容性。我们认为，这样的生态系统将允许更多高度调优应用程序的开发人员获得专用内核的性能优势。

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