The Serverkernel Operating System

Jon Larrea; Antonio Barbalace

doi:10.1145/3378679.3394537

The Serverkernel Operating System

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	ACM Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	13–18
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450371322
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3378679.3394537
Publication status	Published - 27 Apr 2020
Event	3rd International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking - Heraklion, Crete, Greece Duration: 27 Apr 2020 → 27 Apr 2020

Conference

Conference	3rd International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking
Abbreviated title	EdgeSys 2020
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Heraklion, Crete
Period	27/04/20 → 27/04/20

Keywords

operating systems
IoT
unikernel
FaaS
serverkernel

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Larrea, J & Barbalace, A 2020, The Serverkernel Operating System. in Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking. ACM Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 13–18, 3rd International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 27/04/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3378679.3394537

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