OS family Unix System V Marketing target Supercomputing License Proprietary | Working state Current Platforms SX architecture | |
Latest release R21.1 / March 2014; 3 years ago (2014-03) | ||
SUPER-UX, sometimes also annotated SuperUx or Super-UX, is the version of the Unix operating system that is used on NEC SX architecture supercomputers. It is a port of System V Release 4.2MP (SVR4.2MP), but includes many features adopted from BSD and Linux, along with some additional proprietary features specific to a supercomputing environment.
SUPER-UX supports the Supercomputer File System (SFS).
The Earth Simulator used ES OS, an operating system based on SUPER-UX.
References
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