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Operating System for Multicores and Clouds

Fos (Factored Operating System)

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Operating system categories(Based on Kernel)

• Monolithic kernel operating systems

• Microkernel operating systems

• Hybrid

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Problems in current scenario

• Multicore systems

• Cloud computing

• ……

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Solution

• Fos (factored operating system)

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• Microkernel based operating system

• Supports multi core 100 – 1000’s cores

• Scalable

• Availability

• Fault tolerance

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FOS for clouds

• IaaS (Already available)

• PaaS (Proposed)

• SaaS (Proposed)

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• Mobility of Applications

• Single Sign In

• Transformation

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Related Work

• Corey OS

• MS Cloud OS

• Linux Ubuntu Cloud OS

• Tornado and K42 (upto 24 processors)

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References • [1] David Wentzlaff and Anant Agarwal : “Factored Operating Systems (fos): The Case for a

Scalable Operating System for Multicores”. In SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 43(2):76–85, 2009.

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• [2] David Wentzlaff, Charles Gruenwald, Nathan Beckmann and Anant Agarwal : “An operating system for multicore and clouds: Mechanisms and Implementation”. In SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 43(2):76–85, 2010 at MIT Cambridge.

• [3] Ian Sommerville and St. Andrew: “Challenges for Cloud software engineering”. A Presentation slides.

• [4] Ramgovind S, Eloff MM, Smith E: “The Management of Security in Cloud Computing”. In School of Computing, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.

• [5] Cloud Platforms: In microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud-os/why-cloud-os.aspx

• [6] PaaS Solutions: In technet.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud.gg650451.aspx

• [7] S. Boyd-Wickizer, H. Chen, R. Chen, Y.Mao, F. Kaashoek, R.Morris, A. Pesterev, L. Stein,M.Wu, Y. D. Y. Zhang, and Z. Zhang. Corey: An operating system for many cores. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Dec. 2008.

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