Microsoft Open Source OS – Barrelfish
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 November 2009 09:58 Written by DarkKnightH20 Monday, 5 October 2009 12:00
“Barrelfish is a new operating system being built from scratch in a collaboration between researchers at ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research, Cambridge. We are exploring how to structure an OS for future multi- and many-core systems. The motivation is two closely related hardware trends: first, the rapidly growing number of cores, which leads to scalability challenges, and second, the increasing diversity in computer hardware, requiring the OS to manage and exploit heterogeneous hardware resources.”
More Info: Microsoft Research / Barrelfish Website
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