Essays about: "Barrelfish"
Found 4 essays containing the word Barrelfish.
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1. Thread Dispatching in Barrelfish
University essay from KTH/Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT)Abstract : Current computer systems are becoming more and more complex. Even commodity computers nowadays have multiple cores while heterogeneous systems are about to become the mainstream computer architecture. Parallelism, synchronization and scaling are thus becoming issues of grave importance that need to be addressed efficiently. READ MORE
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2. Performance evaluation and analysis of Barrelfish using Simics
University essay from KTH/Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT)Abstract : Personal computing hardware is becoming ever more complex with more cores being added. It is moving from being a multi-core to a many-core system. In the next ten years we are expected to see hundreds of cores on one single chip. It is also very likely we will see more specialized hardware in coexistence with general purpose processing units. READ MORE
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3. Porting Cilk to the Barrelfish OS
University essay from KTH/Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT)Abstract : Barrelfish operating system is an experimental instance of multikernel structure which exhibits good features such as hardware heterogeneity, scalability, dynamicity, etc. Barrelfish is in progress and lacks applications. READ MORE
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4. Porting Barrelfish to the TileraTILEPro64 Architecture
University essay from KTH/Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT)Abstract : Barrelfish is a research operating system with the focus on the scalability of manycore architectures and the increasing numbers of heterogeneous hardware. Instead of heavily relying on the cache coherency protocol which has been proved to be an inherent bottleneck on manycore systems, Barrelfish employs the thought of distributed systems and uses the message-passing approach to implement inter-core communication. READ MORE
