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Microsoft Barrelfish: Not your average OS

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Microsoft Research just announced their experimental OS, Barrelfish. The project is aimed straight at making Operating Systems take advantage of newer multi-core processors, instead of letting their power go to waste.Microsoft is implementing a kind of database that shuffles information between the cores, allowing the cores to communicate much more efficiently.

The new OS is being created by ETH Zurich, a technology university, and Microsoft Research.

[Via DailyTech]

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