- Source: Barrelfish (operating system)
Barrelfish is an experimental computer operating system built by ETH Zurich with the assistance of Microsoft Research in Cambridge. It is an experimental operating system designed from the ground up for scalability for computers built with multi-core processors with the goal of reducing the compounding decrease in benefit as more CPUs are used in a computer by putting low-level hardware information in a database, thus removing the need for driver software.
The partners released the first snapshot of the OS on September 15, 2009 with a second being released in March, 2011. Excluding some third-party libraries, which are covered by various BSD-like open source licenses, Barrelfish is released under the MIT license. Snapshots are regularly released, the last one dating to March 23, 2020.
While originally being developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research, it was also partly supported by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs, Huawei, Cisco, Oracle, and VMware before it was discontinued.
See also
Singularity
Midori
References
Further reading
Andrew Baumann; Paul Barham; Pierre-Evariste Dagand; Tim Harris; Rebecca Isaacs; Simon Peter; Timothy Roscoe; Adrian Schüpbach; Akhilesh Singhania (October 2009). The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems (PDF). 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. Big Sky, MT, USA. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
Pierre-Evariste Dagand; Andrew Baumann; Timothy Roscoe (October 2009). Filet-o-Fish: practical and dependable domain-specific languages for OS development (PDF). 5th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems. Big Sky, MT, USA. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
Andrew Baumann; Simon Peter; Adrian Schüpbach; Akhilesh Singhania; Timothy Roscoe; Paul Barham; Rebecca Isaacs (May 2009). Your computer is already a distributed system. Why isn't your OS? (PDF). 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems. Monte Verità, Switzerland. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
Adrian Schüpbach; Simon Peter; Andrew Baumann; Timothy Roscoe; Paul Barham; Tim Harris; Rebecca Isaacs (June 2008). Embracing diversity in the Barrelfish manycore operating system (PDF). Workshop on Managed Many-Core Systems. Boston, MA, USA. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
External links
Barrelfish.org
Project Paper - "The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems" (PDF file)