From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:54:15 -0700 Message-ID: From: Roman Shaposhnik To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8626a188-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: > Rethinking multi-core systems as distributed heterogeneous > systems. =A0Thoughts? Somehow this feels related to the work that came out of Berkeley a year or so ago. I'm still not convinced what is the benefits of multiple kernels. If you are managing a couple of 100s of cores a single kernel would do just fine, once the industry is ready for a couple dozen of thousands PUs -- the kernel is most likely to be dispensed with anyway. Did you find any ideas there particularly engaging? Thanks, Roman.