Akaros® is an open source, GPL-licensed operating system for manycore architectures. Our goal is to provide support for parallel and high-performance applications and to scale to a large number of cores.

Papers:

• OS and Runtime Support for Efficiently Managing Cores in Parallel Applications
  Kevin Klues's Dissertation, 2015
  
  
• Operating System Support for Parallel Processes
  Barret Rhoden's Dissertation, 2014
  
  
• Improving Per-Node Efficiency in the Datacenter with New OS Abstractions
  Barret Rhoden, Kevin Klues, David Zhu, Eric Brewer
  SOCC, 2011
  

Talks:

• Akaros Virtualization: VMs as Threads
  Ron Minnich, 5th RISC-V Workshop, 2016
  
  
• OS and Runtime Support for Efficiently Managing Cores in Parallel Applications
  Kevin Klues, Dissertation Talk, 2015
  
  
• Operating System Support for Parallel Processes
  Barret Rhoden, Dissertation Talk, 2014
  
  
• Akaros: An Overview and Current Status
  Barret Rhoden, Informal Talk, 2014
  
  
• Parallelism in the Cloud
  Eric Brewer, Keynote at Hotpar, 2013