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MIT TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Arch for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Comp Engine
- rbanffy 8y agoThere is a colossal amount of investment in managing clusters of relatively puny nodes carved out of massive boxes broken into VMs, but I'd love to see what can be done for an OS for the kinds of machines that we have on our desks - with a couple complex and "general purpose" cores along with dozens, if not hundreds of small cores tuned to specific operations. I'm curious on how they could be unified under a single OS, managing processes sharing, perhaps, a single memory space but running wildly different instruction sets. I would expect that would have been done in the mid 90's a couple times.
- qubex 8y agoThis reminds me of TAOS (http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html), an operating system designed for the Transputer parallel computing architecture and later extended to heterogeneous parallel architectures.