Operating Systems
The Center has experience with multiple operating system environments.
CAC runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux
on several HPC clusters. Matthew Szulik, 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
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) was
modeled after a CAC reference implementation. CAC helped Microsoft early adopters
implement Windows-based clusters. Today, the Computational Biology Service
Unit at CAC is operating CCS on a life science cluster and CAC is deploying a CCS engineering cluster. CAC operates several general
-purpose clusters and servers with
Windows Server 2003.
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.
