[Discuss] Whence distributed operating systems?

[Mike Small]

David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> writes:

> On 04/21/2016 12:50 AM, Mike Small wrote:
>> "Sadly it seems that we now need to either wait for Linux or Windows to
>> catch up with the 1980s state of the art in distributed systems (think
>> Locus or AFS). What went wrong? Products like DataSynapse’s FabricServer
>> look like an interesting attempt to address the problem, at least for
>> the Java world, but it feels to me that mainstream operating systems
>> designers seem to have lost the plot somewhere along the way."
>>
>> http://discovery.bmc.com/community/blog-post/whatever-happened-to-distributed-operating-systems3/
>>
>> Is single system image still a thing?
>
> Aren't systems like Apache Mesos (which didn't exist back nearly 10 
> years ago in 2007 when the author wrote that post) the natural successor 
> to DataSynapse FabricServer, and an example of the "distibuted operating 
> system" he's talking about?  I.e., just a big pool of CPU cores, where 
> different portions of the pool can be utilized for different types of 
> distributed workloads.

Sounds more like what he's talking about. Are these kinds of systems
gaining much traction? I'd never heard of Mesos.

-- 
Mike Small
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