IBM Kittyhawk

{{Short description|Supercomputer}}

{{Other uses|Kitty Hawk (disambiguation){{!}}Kitty Hawk}}

Kittyhawk is an IBM supercomputer. The proposed project entails constructing a global-scale shared supercomputer capable of hosting the entire Internet on one platform as an application, whereas the current Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dailytech.com/IBM+Proposes+One+Computer+to+Run+Entire+Internet/article10612.htm |title=IBM Proposes One Computer to Run Entire Internet |access-date=2008-02-24 |archive-date=2008-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314172047/http://www.dailytech.com/IBM+Proposes+One+Computer+to+Run+Entire+Internet/article10612.htm |url-status=dead }}[http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/one_computer_to.php One computer to rule them all]

In 2010 IBM open sourced the Linux kernel patches that allow otherwise unmodified Linux distributions to run on Blue Gene/P. This action allowed the Kittyhawk system software stack to be run at large scale at Argonne National Lab. The open source version of Kittyhawk is available on a public website hosted by Boston University.{{Cite web |url=http://kittyhawk.bu.edu/ |title=Open Source Kittyhawk |access-date=2010-06-30 |archive-date=2011-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429185523/http://kittyhawk.bu.edu/ |url-status=dead }}

In 2012 the Kittyhawk project was made a part of the United States Department of Energy fault oblivious execution (FOX) project, and ported to run on the Intrepid supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory.{{Cite web |url=http://ascr-discovery.science.doe.gov/exascale/exa_fault4.shtml |title=At exascale, being oblivious to a fault keeps apps running |access-date=2012-12-12 |archive-date=2013-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130219035837/http://ascr-discovery.science.doe.gov/exascale/exa_fault4.shtml |url-status=dead }}

In 2013 researchers used the Kittyhawk project to demonstrate a novel high-performance cloud computing platform by merging a cloud computing environment with a supercomputer.

[http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/01/29/researchers-implement-hpc-first-cloud-approach/ Researchers Implement HPC-First Cloud Approach]

[http://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/researchers-describe-project-merge-cloud-computing-and-supercomputing Researchers Describe Project to Merge Cloud Computing and Supercomputing]