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A multikernel Operating system treats a multi-core machine as a network of independent cores, as if it were a distributed system. It does not assume shared memory but rather implements inter-process communications as Message-passing.[1][2]

  1. ^ Baumann et. al, "The Multikernel: a new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems", to appear in 22nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (2009), http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/101903/paper.pdf
  2. ^ The Barrelfish operating system, http://www.barrelfish.org/.

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