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KernelThe word kernel can mean more than one thing.
- The kernel of a seed is all that is within the outer coat of the seed, as the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument. The term kernel can also mean a single seed or grain, as "a kernel of corn".
- The kernel of an operating system is its essential component, such as the Linux kernel.
- In mathematics, kernel has several different, somewhat unrelated meanings; see Kernel (mathematics), or go directly to Kernel (function), Kernel (algebra), or Kernel (category theory).
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Extensible Operating Systems
Short, annotated, alphabetically sorted list and links, part of larger system.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/os/extensible.html
SPIN
Dynamically extensible, Exokernel-based, provides many core services: scheduler, kernel threads, domains, event dispatcher, security mechanisms, primitive VM operations. Blurs distinction between kernels and applications, which traditionally live in user-level address spaces, separated from kernel resources and services by an expensive protection boundary. Lets applications specialize the kernel by dynamically linking new code into running systems.
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/spin/www/
Using Kernel Extensions to Decrease the Latency of User-Level Communication Primitives
Suggests solving networking and distributed systems latency via operating system extensibility; University of New Mexico Technical Report.
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~riesen/prop/
SPIN: Extensibility, Safety, and Performance in the SPIN Operating System
Presents an extensible OS based on MIT Exokernel that can be dynamically specialized to meet the needs of individual applications.
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~gribble/osprelims/summaries/SpinOS.html
VINO
Extensible OS, high reusability and modularity, application-directed kernel policy, universal resource interface, take no usual solutions for granted (question everything): software and postscript downloads.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~vino/vino/
Synthetix
Extensible technology for adaptive systems: researching tools, techniques to incrementally specialize OSs to optimize performance, meta-programming languages to let applications declare specialization needs to OSs, and to specialize distributed systems to enhance survivability via code diversity and specialized response to intrusion.
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/synthetix/
Extensible Operating Systems
Brief description, and on-site links to descriptions of Choices, Exokernel, GLUnix, VINO, SPIN.
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~riesen/prop/node26.html
A Caching Model of Operating System Kernel Functionality
Stanford Cache Kernel, supervisor-mode component of V++ OS; caches system objects (threads, address spaces) to raise performance; microkernel alternative, performance equals normal monolithic OSs, yet gives application-level control of system resources, more modularity, scalability, smaller size, means of fault containment.
http://www-dsg.stanford.edu/papers/cachekernel/main.html
BITS
The Component Based Operating System: based on describing system resources as independent components, lets applications implement their own abstractions, define their own protection schemes, participate in resource management.
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~patty/bits.html
Open Kernel Environment: OKE
Lets non-root users load native, fully optimized code in kernels. OKE Corral: active network environment, lets 3rd-party code manage code organization at any level of nodes. LEGO-like model from MIT Click router. Description, papers, release page, contacts. [Open Source, GPL]
http://www.liacs.nl/home/herbertb/projects/oke/
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