Operating System and Scheduling for Future Multi-core and Many-Core Platforms

In this chapter, an overview is made on the limitations of the nowadays OS support for multicore systems, when applied to the future and emerging many-core, massively parallel and distributed platforms. Also, an overview is done of the most promising approaches which have been proposed to deal with such platforms. The discussion is strongly focused on the kernel architecture models and kernel-level mechanisms and the needed interface(s) toward user-level code