Reminds me of Your computer is already a distributed system. Why isn’t your OS? from HotOS 2009: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos09/tech/full_papers/

Reminds me of Your computer is already a distributed system. Why isn’t your OS? from HotOS 2009: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos09/tech/full_papers/baumann/baumann.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos09/tech/full_paper... We argue that a new OS for a multicore machine should be designed ground-up as a distributed system, using concepts from that field. Modern hardware resembles a networked system even more than past large multiprocessors: in addition to familiar latency effects, it exhibits node heterogeneity and dynamic membership changes And now that I look at the author list, I see Roscoe, who gives the 2021 keynote that Cantrill recommends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo