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Barrelfish: Microsoft's free multi-core OS

posted onJuly 11, 2011
by l33tdawg

Microsoft Research and the Systems Groups at ETH Zurich have released the latest version of their research operating system, Barrelfish, under an MIT licence and placed it in a Mercurial repository for public access.

BarrelFish is an experimental operating system which has been designed to run on systems with heterogeneous CPUs, such as a computer with a mix of x86 and ARM, or a system on a chip with a variety of specialised cores. Currently the system runs on x86-64 bit and ARM multiprocessor hardware, Intel's 48-core research microprocessor (the Single-chip Cloud Computer) and BeeHivePDF, a many-core computer built using FPGAs.

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