Microsoft’s researchers are working on yet another operating-system research project which can trace its roots to the company’s Singularity project. This new operating system, known as Helios, is a heterogeneous multiprocessing platform built around satellite kernels.
(The folks over at
the Ma-Config.com blog sent me a pointer to Helios after I wrote last week about another
Microsoft Research operating system project, codenamed “Barrelfish.” Without the link they provided, I wouldn’t have found information about Helios, as it isn’t listed on the active projects page for Microsoft Research. Microsoft researchers have written
a 14-page paper on Helios, however, which is slated for publication in October.)
09-29-2009
