Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Sep 2009 23:12 UTC, submitted by Still Lynn
Most of us are probably aware of Singularity, a research operating system out of Microsoft Research which explored a number of new ideas, which is available as open source software. Singularity isn't the only research OS out of Microsoft; they recently released the first snapshot of a new operating system, called Barrelfish. It introduces the concept of the multikernel, which treats a multicore system as a network of independent cores, using ideas from distributed systems.
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2006-05-09
There is nothing interesting about this OS. It's just a distributed, message-passing OS. Whup-dee-do. We've had those for decades. Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Nvidia and the others should be put to shame for coming out with a bunch of cretinous, non-innovative ideas on how to solve the parallel programming crisis. Multithreading is an abomination. The universe is a parallel system and it uses no threads. The only way to solve the crisis is by getting rid of threads altogether.
How to Solve the Parallel Programming Crisis:
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-solve-parallel-prog...