Frans Kaashoek
MIT

The Multicore Evolution and Operating Systems
 
photo of Frans Kaashoek​Abstract: Multicore chips with hundreds of cores will likely be available soon. Although many applications have significant inherent parallelism (e.g., mail servers), their scalability on many cores can be limited by the underlying operating system. We have built or modified several kernels (Corey, Linux, and xv6) to explore OS designs that scale with increasing number of cores. This talk will summarize our experiences by exploring questions such as what is the impact of kernel scalability on application scalability, is a revolution in kernel design necessary to achieve kernel scalability, and what limits kernel scalability.

This work is joint work with S. Boyd-Wickizer, A. Clements, Y. Mao, A. Pesterev, R. Morris, and N. Zeldovich


​Biography: M. Frans Kaashoek is a professor at MIT, where he co-leads the parallel and distributed operating systems group. Frans is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser award and the 2010 ACM-Infosys Foundation award. He was co-founder of Sightpath, Inc. and Mazu Networks, Inc.

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