Multikernel
A multikernel operating system treats a multi-core machine as a network of independent cores, as if it were a distributed system. It does not assume shared memory but rather implements inter-process communications as message-passing.[1][2]
See also
- Amoeba distributed operating system
- Barrelfish
- Distributed operating system
- eMCOS[3]
References
- Baumann et. al, "The Multikernel: a new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems", to appear in 22nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (2009), http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/101903/paper.pdf
- The Barrelfish operating system, http://www.barrelfish.org/.
- eSOL eMCOS distributed kernel, https://www.esol.com/embedded/emcos.html
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