iRCCE support

Running Message-Passing Applications in a bare-metal environment

Posted by Stefan Lankes on April 19, 2016

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HermiTux

A binary-compatible unikernel


Stefan Lankes

Initiator

You may find interesting:


HermitCore @ ARCS'17 and YouTube

Presentation at ARCS'17 and tutorials at YouTube


HermitCore as classical Unikernel

Running standalone within a VM

The video shows message-passing applications running in bare-metal environment. All application based on the message passing library iRCCE.

In this demo, NUMA nodes are isolated and on each node runs a HermitCore instance. This promises a reduction of remote memory accesses, which increases the scalability of the system.