Pre-Alpha Console distro for high performance Linux computing.
Basic Debian INTEL/AMD HPC console/desktop multi purpose. Linux for software devs/QA and thin laboratory clusters. MIC hardware, NUMA and live network memory and full IPv6 are supported.
Final alpha release features:
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* Usb image
* General debian repos
* VM optimizations
* Hugepages by default
* CGROUPs optimized by default
* ALSA
* Latest Debugging / Baremetal kernels
* Full Haswell and MIC support in test
* Full optimized python support
* Full optimized perl support
* Java compliance
* IPv6 full stack with IPsets
* Multipath storage
* Overclocking tools
* Student/Developer scripts. ...
Android virtual machines running on Openstack Clouds
...Instructons on how to create the image yourself: http://thisismyeye.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/enabling-virtio-drivers-on-kernel-for.html
This image is not perfect yet. Contributors are welcome!
This work is done by Chathura Madhusanka Sarathchandra Magurawalage as a part of his research activities at Network Convergence Laboratory (NCL), University Of Essex
Related Research Projects:
*EU-funded FP7 Project MONICA (Mobile Cloud Computing: Networks, Services and Architecture).
*EU-funded FP7 Project CLIMBER (Cross-Layer Investigation and Integration of Computing and Networking Aspects of Mobile Social Networks).
*EU-funded FP7 Project EVANS (End-to-end Virtual Resource Management..)
Software from LoCI Laboratory is devoted to information logistics, the study of the flexible coscheduling of the physical resources that underpin computer systems: storage, computation, and data transmission. We use IBP, L-Bone, exNode and LoRS.