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 Webpage has been discontinued Unfortunately, I no longer have time to maintain the webpages on operating system projects. In fact, I haven't updated the entries on the original page for well over 2 years, and it seems unlikely that I...
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/os/parallel.html

University of Toronto researchers working on all aspects of parallel systems: computer architecture, OSs, compilers, performance evaluation, applications. Home of Hurricane and Tornado OSs, Hector and NUMAchine multiprocessors.
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 Group comprises of researchers from the University of Toronto working in all aspects of parallel systems, including computer architecture, operating systems, compilers, performance evaluation and applications. Previous projects include the Hector shared memory multiprocessor, and the Hurricane multiprocessor operating system....
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/parallel/

Goal: scalability of highly parallel multicomputer systems. Based on small microkernel that does process management, interprocess communication; all other services are processes out of kernel. Processes and address spaces orthogonal, so Cosy process is like thread in other OSs. Hardware dependencies concentrated in areas of kernel for portability.
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AG Heiss Project Cosy  Your browser does not support frames....
http://wwwcs.uni-paderborn.de/fachbereich/AG/heiss/cosy/