Operating Systems
The Center has experience with multiple operating system environments.
CAC runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux
on multiple HPC clusters.
The Chairman and CEO of Red Hat spoke at Cornell on the impact of open source technologies.
Red Hat’s other affinity with Cornell is its name. Company founder, Marc Ewing, was given a
Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes)
while at college by his grandfather. It was his favorite hat. He lost it somewhere in Philadelphia
in his last year of school and named the company “Red Hat” to memorialize his Cornell hat.
CAC was instrumental in helping Microsoft to enter the high-performance computing
market.
The built-in scheduler in Microsoft's HPC product was modeled after a CAC reference implementation.
Today,
CAC is operating Windows HPC clusters for the Computational Biology Service Unit, the Cornell Fracture Group, and the Turbulence and Combustion Group.
CAC operates an Apple cluster running
Mac OS X Server for computational
biologists from the USDA Agricultural Research Service.
Other Operating Systems Experience
Center staff previously ran UNIX operating systems, including IBM AIX and SGI IRIX.
Operating Systems Research
The Operating Systems group
at Cornell’s Department of Computer Science performs fundamental research on the design and implementation of operating
systems.
