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Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios.

A distributed operating system is an software over a collection of independent, networked, communicating and physically separate computational nodes.

Amazon's service architecture. Image courtesy Amazon. The idea of a distributed operating system has been around in academia for a long time.

Key Features / What You Need To Know: 🌐 Distributed OS: HarmonyOS connects Huawei devices seamlessly across smartphones, tablets, wearables, and IoT gadgets. 🔒 Secure & Efficient: Built on a ...

Huawei says that its new OS is a microkernel-based distributed OS, which has been designed to offer a seamless user experience across all devices.

Folding@home 2.0 is ready for download, and Mac OS X graphical user interface and command line interface clients are now available for the first time. Folding@home is a distributed computing ...

Announced by Improbable CEO Herman Narula at the Slush event in Helsinski, Spatial OS is essentially an operating system for developing advanced and large scale data simulations.