The concept behind Barrelfish

September 29, 2009 by Macbeth
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As OS design seems to have been understood in some blogs that are just as multicore or SMP system. The concept behind the other Barrelfish distributed systems coming from Microsoft Research is an interesting technology news: a multikernel able to communicate with user space and with x86 processors, ARM, CELL or graphics chips and all constitute a single system eyes of those who operate it. Then this system in a primitive state seeks unprecedented modularity in distributed: it is not an implementation advantage quadcores resources, it is spread in heterogeneous clusters or configuration NUMA (non-parallelizable) by intercom protocols URPC of a group of nuclei coupled in one general system. Is being planned under a BSD license (open but sealable).
The only source that explains in detail ( in English )

modularity

Does anyone remember the decentralized modular system try without kernel and 100% rechargeable without restarts and never moved from theory? Unununium called and returned (assembler and BSD license). Though still but slightly profiled are the initial self-replicating systems (see the monolith that goes "hyper" when you get Linux 2019).

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4 Comments on The concept behind Barrelfish

  1. Macbeth on Tue, 29th Sep 2009 0:13

    2. Will SkyNet against the Taliban? ¿First shoot Ahmadinejad?

  2. cuarzoliquido on Tue, 29th Sep 2009 17:48

    3. Unununium, the operating system mentioned here, has a lot of real, two bootable disks called Dimension and Existence, but the ASM source code from the old original project, and in python the current project.

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/uuu/files/

  3. Macbeth on Tue, 29th Sep 2009 23:14

    4. Yes, http://unununium.org/ has returned and is back among us, now the theory is still experimental (had not noticed it in Python).

  4. cuarzoliquido on Fri, 2nd Oct 2009 20:37

    5. I think the theory is pseudocode, UML, for a while Operating Engine Unununium experiment a bit with Petri Nets (I do not know in their guts), that is theory, but when you have lines of code in an obscure language like ASM, or the same concept of modularity, but made lines of code in Python, there are ideas in motion, I was a theoretical, unable to make a tiny kernel in C, they have led to the praxis ideas near and far code to hardware.

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