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== Future ==
The last supercomputers running lightweight kernels are the remaining IBM Bluegene systems running CNK. A new direction for lightweight kernels is to combine them with a full-featured OS, onsuch aas many-core node.Linux,
on a many-core node. These [[Multikernel|multikernel]] operating systems run a lightweight kernel on some of the CPU cores of a node, while other cores provide services usingthat operating systems suchare asomitted Linuxin which are more familiarlightweight tokernels.
today's application programmers than the limited feature set lightweight kernels of the past. By combining the two, users get the Linux features they need but also lightweight kernelthe deterministic behavior and scalability of lightweight kernels.
 
== References ==