Barrelfish (operating system)

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Barrelfish
DeveloperETH Zurich with assistance of Microsoft Research
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseSeptember 15, 2009 (2009-09-15)
Latest release2020.03.23 / March 23, 2020 (2020-03-23)
Repository
Kernel typeMultikernel, Microkernel
LicenseMIT License
Official websitewww.barrelfish.org

Barrelfish is an experimental computer operating system built by ETH Zurich with the assistance of Microsoft Research in Cambridge. It is an experimental operating system designed from the ground up for scalability for computers built with multi-core processors with the goal of reducing the compounding decrease in benefit as more CPUs are used in a computer by putting low-level hardware information in a database, thus removing the need for driver software.

The partners released the first snapshot of the OS on September 15, 2009 with a second being released in March, 2011. Excluding some third-party libraries, which are covered by various BSD-like open source licenses, Barrelfish is released under the MIT license. Snapshots are regularly released, the last one dating to March 23, 2020.

While originally being developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research, it is now partly supported by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs, Huawei, Cisco, Oracle, and VMware.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "The Barrelfish Operating System".
  2. ^ Joseph L. Flatley (2009-09-29). "Microsoft unveils Barrelfish multi-core optimized OS". Engadget.
  3. ^ Jeremy Kirk (2009-09-30). "Microsoft 'Barrelfish' OS will speed multicore systems". InfoWorld.
  4. ^ Jason Mick (2009-09-28). "Microsoft Unveils "Barrelfish", a New Multi-core OS". DailyTech. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  5. ^ Mary Jo Foley (2009-09-25). "Microsoft and European researchers deliver a snapshot of multikernel 'Barrelfish' OS". ZDNet.
  6. ^ Julie Bort (2009-09-24). "Microsoft, researchers release new operating system project: Barrelfish". Network World.
  7. ^ Roni Häcki (2018-02-23). "New Barrelfish Release". Barrelfish-users (Mailing list).
  8. ^ Lukas Humbel (2018-10-04). "New Barrelfish Release". Barrelfish-users (Mailing list).
  9. ^ Lukas Humbel (2020-03-23). "New Barrelfish Release". Barrelfish-users (Mailing list).

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