From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rmswierczek@gmail.com (Robert Swierczek) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:33:03 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Questions for TUHS great minds Message-ID: Not so long ago I joked about putting a Cray-1 in a watch. Now that we are essentially living in the future, what audacious (but realistic) architectures can we imagine under our desks in 25 years? Perhaps a mesh of ten-million of today's highest end CPU/GPU pairs bathing in a vast sea of non-volatile memory? What new abstractions are needed in the OS to handle that? Obviously many of the current command line tools would need rethinking (ps -ef for instance.) Or does the idea of a single OS disintegrate into a fractal cloud of zero-cost VM's? What would a meta-OS need to manage that? Would we still recognize it as a Unix? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: