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The serverkernel operating system

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EdgeSys '20: Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3378679.3394537

Published: 13 May 2020 Publication History

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With the idea of exploiting all the computational resources that an IoT environment with multiple interconnected devices offers, serverkernel is presented as a new operating system architecture that blends ideas from distributed operating systems, Unikernel, and LWK. These concepts are mixed with a server in which a user can remotely offload computations and get the result. This single space-address operating system (OS) can be interpreted as a bare-metal OS in which only drivers for CPU, network, and accelerators are required in order to provide service.

To demonstrate the advantages of serverkernel, jonOS, an open-source C implementation of this architecture for Raspberry Pi, is provided. Compared with commercial architectures used in IoT devices, serverkernel achieves an improvement ratio of 1.5 in CPU time, 2.5 in real-time, and around 9 times better in network speed.

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The serverkernel operating system
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