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SRC: FenixOS - a research operating system focused on high scalability and reliability

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Stavros Passas,

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ICS '11: Proceedings of the international conference on Supercomputing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1995896.1995954

Published: 31 May 2011 Publication History

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Computer systems keep increasing in size. Systems scale in the number of processing units, memories and peripheral devices. This creates many and diverse architectural trade-offs that the existing operating systems are not able to address. We are designing and implementing, FenixOS, a new operating system that aims to improve the state of the art in scalability and reliability.

We achieve scalability through limiting data sharing when possible, and through extensive use of lock-free data structures. Reliability is addressed with a careful re-design of the programming interface and structure of the operating system.

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SRC: FenixOS - a research operating system focused on high scalability and reliability
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems

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ICS '11: Proceedings of the international conference on Supercomputing

May 2011

398 pages

ISBN:9781450301022

DOI:10.1145/1995896

General Chair:
David K. Lowenthal
University of Arizona
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Program Chairs:
Bronis R. de Supinski
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Sally A. McKee
Chalmers University of Technology

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 31 May 2011

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