XandZ » barrelfish http://www.xandz.net Technology News Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:51:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Microsoft Barrelfish: Not your average OS http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/29/microsoft-barrelfish-not-your-average-os/ http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/29/microsoft-barrelfish-not-your-average-os/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:08:38 +0000 admin http://www.xandz.net/?p=44 barrelfish

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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