[Nottingham] Cooperating Operating Systems

[Martin]

On 27/04/10 12:58, Jason Cozens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's a while since I posted anything here but I'm wondering whether it
> would be possible to give an update on the work I presented in August
> 2008.
> 
> I've started defining the outlines of what I call COS -
> Cooperating Operating Systems.
> 
> I've been making some notes on a wiki at http://greatc.wikia.com.
> 
> This includes an outline for some presentations at:
> 
> http://greatc.wikia.com/Presentation001
> 
> and
> 
> http://greatc.wikia.com/Presentation002
> 
> As a very rough summary the design started by asking the question if

[...]

> modification to the broadcast network structure it should be scalable
> to 1,000,000+ processors.
> 
> This is only a very short summary of what I have been working on
> but I'd be interested to know if there is any interest in these ideas
> and in discussing the assumptions I'm making.

Ya hey!

Certainly!

And rather interesting. Especially so with mainstream "hexa-core" CPUs
available now, and with the 100-core or so server CPUs available soon or
even already in use.

That reminds me, I've still to summarise my experiments with parallel
bash processes from a talk or two ago...


The talks lineup we have at the moment is:

All Wednesdays talks at the Nav:

(28/04/2010 Nottingham Hardware Hack Group - Dominic)

05/05/2010 Putting up a web site

(19/05/2010 NLUG social at Kayal)

05/06/2010 An introduction to databases (and how most websites abuse them!)

And for the following first Wednesdays of each month, that depends on
what comes up in the general discussions.


Have you a preferred date?

(I'm very happy to postpone the present two talks :-) )


Cheers,
Martin


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