Memoirs of a computer pioneer
Mechanisms for reliable distributed real-time operating systems: The Alpha Kernel
Mechanisms for reliable distributed real-time operating systems: The Alpha Kernel
Communications of the ACM
The Sprite Network Operating System
Computer
The Mungi single-address-space operating system
Software—Practice & Experience - Special issue on multiprocessor operating systems
Primitives for distributed computing
SOSP '79 Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The architecture of the Eden system
SOSP '81 Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
LOCUS a network transparent, high reliability distributed system
SOSP '81 Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
On the duality of operating system structures
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Communications of the ACM - Voting systems
Are virtual machine monitors microkernels done right?
HOTOS'05 Proceedings of the 10th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 10
MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
Bigtable: a distributed storage system for structured data
OSDI '06 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation - Volume 7
Dryad: distributed data-parallel programs from sequential building blocks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2007
The multikernel: a new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems
Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 22nd symposium on Operating systems principles
Helios: heterogeneous multiprocessing with satellite kernels
Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 22nd symposium on Operating systems principles
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines
The case for RAMClouds: scalable high-performance storage entirely in DRAM
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Your computer is already a distributed system. why isn't your OS?
HotOS'09 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Hot topics in operating systems
Corey: an operating system for many cores
OSDI'08 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Rethinking the library OS from the top down
Proceedings of the sixteenth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computing
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
Attack surface reduction for commodity OS kernels: trimmed garden plants may attract less bugs
Proceedings of the Fourth European Workshop on System Security
HotOS'13 Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on Hot topics in operating systems
Disk-locality in datacenter computing considered irrelevant
HotOS'13 Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on Hot topics in operating systems
Warehouse-Scale Computing: Entering the Teenage Decade
Proceedings of the 38th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Resilient distributed datasets: a fault-tolerant abstraction for in-memory cluster computing
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
The Architecture of an Integrated Local Network
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Netmap: a novel framework for fast packet I/O
USENIX ATC'12 Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
OSDI'12 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
MegaPipe: a new programming interface for scalable network I/O
OSDI'12 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Heterogeneity and dynamicity of clouds at scale: Google trace analysis
Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
Communications of the ACM
Composing OS extensions safely and efficiently with Bascule
Proceedings of the 8th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems
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Since their heyday the 1980s, distributed operating systems---spanning multiple autonomous machines, yet appearing to the user as a single machine---have seen only moderate academic interest. This is a little surprising, since modern data centers might present an appealing environment for their deployment. In this position paper, we discuss what has changed since the community lost interest in them, and why, nonetheless, distributed OSes have yet to be considered for data centers. Finally, we argue that the distributed OS concept is worth a revisit, and outline the benefits to be had from it in the context of the modern data center.