Microsoft has applied for any patent for any distributed working technique that matches the description of 1 its researchers have already been creating, called Helios.(Because of ZDNet blogger @Manan for that website link towards the patent application.)The patent application,
Windows 7 Home Premium Product Key, dated March 2009, is for “an working program distributed over heterogeneous platforms.” From the patent abstract:“An illustrative running system distributes two or more instances of the running system over heterogeneous platforms of a computing device. The instances of the working system work together to provide single-kernel semantics to present a common working system abstraction to application modules. The heterogeneous platforms may include co-processors that use different instruction set architectures and/or functionality, different NUMA domains, etc. Further,
microsoft Office 2010 License, the operating program allows application modules to transparently access components using a local communication path and a remote communication path. Further, the operating program includes a policy manager module that determines the placement of components based on affinity values associated with interaction relations between components. The affinity values express the sensitivity of the interaction relations to a relative location of the components.”The three inventors listed on the patent application are all among those leading the Helios project.Like a few other Microsoft working system projects, Helios is based on the Microsoft Singularity running method. Singularity is a non-Windows-based microkernel developed by Microsoft Researchers, including Galen Hunt, who is one of the inventors listed on the patent application. Other Microsoft operating-system projects based on Singularity include the Midori operating method that is currently in incubation at the company, and its Barrelfish working program project, which Microsoft Research is creating in conjunction with university researchers.As I noted in a blog post earlier this year,
Windows 7 Keygen, Microsoft researchers built Helios by modifying the Singularity research development kit (RDK) to support satellite kernels, remote message passing and affinity. They implemented satellite-kernel support on two different hardware platforms: an Intel XScale programmable PCI Express I/O card and cache-coherent NUMA architectures. Helios “treats programmable devices as part of a ‘distributed method in the small,’” according to Microsoft’s description,
Windows 7 sale, and “is inspired by distributed working systems such as LOCUS, Emerald and Quicksilver.”As Microsoft Research officials often repeat,
Windows 7 Pro Product Key, there is no guarantee when or if any Microsoft Research project will be commercialized. But a patent application does make Helios seem more definitive and concrete….