Low-Security/High-Performance OS
Is there a low-security, high-performance Linux flavor that turns off most internal security controls in favor of performance? This would disable pre-fetch attack mitigations, etc... so it would not be suitable for multi-tenant usage but would be useful for fleets of machines doing single-tenant jobs where a couple percent performance improvement could save alot of money or reduce total time.
Any of them can be transformed into one:
/etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="mitigations=off"
update-grub
reboot