[$] Popcorn Linux pops up on linux-kernel

The end of April saw the posting of acomplex patch set called "Popcorn Linux distributed thread execution". It is the first appearance on thekernel mailing lists of an academic project (naturally called PopcornLinux) that has been underway since 2013 or so. This project has,among other goals, the objective of turning a tightly networked set ofcomputers into something that looks like a single system - a sort of NUMAmachine with even larger than usual inter-node costs. The posted code,which is a portion of the larger project, is focused on process migrationand memory sharing across machines. It is an interesting proof of concept,but one should not expect to see it merged in anything close to its currentform.