I think that someone newly interested in this should consider the longer history of distributed OS concepts too. What are you trying to do differently? What s

I think that someone newly interested in this should consider the longer history of distributed OS concepts too. What are you trying to do differently? What set of tradeoffs give you a well-defined solution space which is a gap in current approaches? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(operating_system) was a project at UC Berkeley that ran building-scale networks of workstations as a distributed OS. It ended in 1992 but produced innovations such as the log-structured filesystem along the way. Various commercial products like Domain/OS or SGI Irix also were distributed operating systems at different scales. It seems like these lost out to the more typical HPC solutions with distributed/parallel OS instances limited to each node. Or on the other extreme, mainframe systems continue to be a kind of distributed OS built for high availability and scaling in a very controlled environment.