ACM Tech Talk – July 2008 Edition
ACM Bangalore Chapter recently had a ACM Tech Talk at CSI Bangalore office at Infantry road. The speaker was Ankita Garg of IBM Linux Technology Centre. Topic of the talk was Linux as an Enterprise real-time operating system .
Ankita started with an introduction of realtime systems differentiating between hard and soft real-time systems. This was followed by discussions on patches applied to Linux to make the kernel pre-emptible, high-resolution timer (which I found particularly useful), syncronisation primitives and threading library. It concluded with a discussion on the current challenges for linux as enterprise realtime system.
It was a very interactive talk and attendees had lots of questions. We ran out of time sadly and Ankita could not give a demo. But if there is sustained interest in operating systems talk then it might be a good idea to start SIGOPS chapter in ACM Bangalore to get all operating systems gearheads to talk together