[Barrelfish-users] Barrelfish Cluster

[Schwyn Daniel]

Hi Mikel,

Spanning Barrelfish across an entire rack was always the idea. However, nobody ended up actually trying it. So in principal this should be absolutely possible but some parts of the implementation probably make assumptions that don’t hold or would at least need to be verified in a rack-scale setting. An example would be assumptions about transport reliability and latencies that implementations of the consensus protocols between OS nodes make.
We don’t have any active efforts in that direction, at least not here at ETH Zürich.

Best,
Daniel

Von: Barrelfish-users <barrelfish-users-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch> Im Auftrag von Mikel Martin
Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. März 2021 18:58
An: barrelfish-users at lists.inf.ethz.ch
Betreff: [Barrelfish-users] Barrelfish Cluster

Hi!

I’m a network engineer and an IT student working on a research project for Home Area Network computing and I came across this idea of multi-kernel systems. The same way kernels in Barrelfish work with each other by message-passing, can Barrelfish be built in separate machines, as a cluster of some sort, doing the message-passing via local area network? Did anyone give this idea a shot? I’m really interested in working with Barrelfish’s team on this or any similar approaches you might have thought of.

Thanks in advance,

Mikel Martin
ITM student at Illinois Institute of Technology


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