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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They're giving it away because it's crap. That's why. The way to solve the parallel programming crisis is to get rid of multithreading. We must reinvent computers as we know them because the CPU was not designed with parallelism in mind. The CPU is a 150-year old idea that started with Babbage and Lovelace. It belongs in the Smithsonian, right next to the analytical engine, buggy whip and the slide rule. And the GPU is not the answer either since it's not universal. Both CPU and GPU are doomed. It's time to abandoned the failed computing paradigm of the baby-boomer century and forge a new computing future.
How to Solve the Parallel Programming Crisis:
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-solve-parallel-prog...