The HPC guys use OS-Bypass to avoid system calls. [0] Ron Minnich presented a paper at the Plan9 conference Using Currying and process-private system calls to

The HPC guys use OS-Bypass to avoid system calls. [0] Ron Minnich presented a paper at the Plan9 conference Using Currying and process-private system calls to break the one-microsecond system call barrier [1] Which is a technique he's been using on Blue-Gene. There are some more papers linked from the IBM Research website. [2] [0] http://www.networkworld.com/article/2317965/tech-primers/os-bypass-eliminates-overhead.html http://www.networkworld.com/article/2317965/tech-primers/os-... Sorry the conference repository server is awol, all I could find is this : [1] https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/7777923/using-currying-and-process-private-system-calls-to-break-bitbucket/11 https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/7777923/using-curryin... [2] http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_pubs.php?grp=1271 http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_pubs....