Popcorn Linux pops up on linux-kernel
Popcorn Linux pops up on linux-kernel
The end of April saw the posting of a complex patch set called "Popcorn Linux distributed thread execution". It is the first appearance on the kernel mailing lists of an academic project (naturally called Popcorn Linux) that has been underway since 2013 or so. This project has, among other goals, the objective of turning a tightly networked set of computers into something that looks like a single system — a sort of NUMA machine with even larger than usual inter-node costs. The posted code, which is a portion of the larger project, is focused on process migration and memory sharing across machines. It is an interesting proof of concept, but one should not expect to see it merged in anything close to its current form.