Most machines now run mutli-core processors, which is great at increasing throughput. Unfortunately this increased activity also means latency occurs and the time your applications take to run can take its toll on your patience.
The Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge is attempting to address this problem with an operating system called “BarrelFish.”
Dr Andrew Herbert, managing director of the labs claims the key concept of the OS is to restrict communication between the cores to create a better timeline of actions.
“Rather than trying to give the illusion of everything being shared and accessible to all, we insist that the applications are much more explicit about their communications,” he said.
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