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Comment by adambrod | Hacker News Reader

What would be really interesting is Elixir-OS/Erlang-OS where the entire OS can take advantage of a 50 core CPU.

You may be interested in learning about some of the approaches taken by the Midori project:http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

A research OS with the theme of treating the OS as if it were a distributed system.

Actually, BEAM can somewhat (and probably should be) considered an OS. It's got most everything you'd need baked in and ready to go...

Right now, I'd say the bigger issue isn't he entire OS taking advantage but the applications running within it... in which case, yes, BEAM would be an amazing paradigm shift! :D

The entire os can in fact take advantage of a 50 core cpu and most of the things that would benefit the most can.

I remember SGI adding code to Linux to to make it work on their NUMA machines with 256 sockets and 2,000-4,000 cores with single system image. They were my favorite but not only one. I'm sure some distro out there can handle 50 by now. :)

Thanks, I was not aware of this :)

Are you saying current OSs dont?!

Current OSes don't include the buzzword "Elixir" so they aren't relevant to Hackers.

I'm honestly not sure. I was under the impression that it was limited... but thinking back perhaps I was thinking of the software that usually doesn't take advantage of multiple processes. Also half joking :D

http://nerves-project.org/

I have no idea about the details, but this is kind of cool:

http://erlangonxen.org/

http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/

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