[Barrelfish-users] Barrelfish on cluster

[Timothy Roscoe]

Hi Zeus, 

It's definitely an idea that has come up.   Some of the pieces needed
have been looked at, but we've never built a complete system (or
solved all the problems).

Two projects which were inspired by the idea are up on the web site:

 - Alexander Grest. A Routing and Forwarding Subsystem for a Multicore
   Operating System. Bachelor's thesis, ETH Zurich, August 2011.
 
   [ Multihop message passing ]

 - Jonas Hauenstein, David Gerhard, Gerd Zellweger. Ethernet Message
   Passing for Barrelfish. Distributed Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, July
   2011.

   [ A tunnelling interconnect driver over Ethernet between two
   machines ]

If you're interested in looking more at this, we should talk!

Best, 

 -- Mothy

At Fri, 3 Aug 2012 17:31:26 +0200, Zeus Gómez Marmolejo <zeus.gomez at bsc.es> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering for some time if you considered the option of porting
> Barrelfish to a cluster of a large number of CPUs (specially ARM cores)
> connected by network interfaces. Flounder could have a backend for TCP/IP
> for message passing...
> 
> I'm thinking about the benefits of this configuration over traditional
> clusters (ie Linux) specially on the memory management and message
> passing...
> 
> Do you have any ideas on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Zeus Gómez Marmolejo
> Barcelona Supercomputing Center
> PhD student
> http://www.bsc.es
>