========================================= Genode Labs Newsletter - June / July 2016 ========================================= Content 1. Celebrating Genode's 8th Anniversary 2. Flex4Apps project funded by the EU 3. Genode's support for the seL4 kernel is shaping up 1. Celebrating Genode's 8th Anniversary --------------------------------------- Every summer since 2009, we celebrate the progress of Genode together with the community by a casual barbecue and campfire at the Elbe river banks. There are many reasons to celebrate: The four quarterly releases of the past year were packed with intriguing topics, ranging from the exploration of the RISC-V architecture, over the introduction of kernel support for Muen and seL4, to the creation of novel GUI and file-system stacks. Besides the engagement with these exciting topics, the dedication of the developer team has gradually moved from feature-centric development toward the cultivation of a sustainable and high-quality code base. This is now embodied in all major parts of the framework, including the fundamentally revised API, its mature tools, the quality and scope of the automated tests, the up-to-date documentation, and the open work flow. We are delighted by positive feedback we have received so far and are especially happy about the growing developer community outside of Genode Labs. To recall the past year's events, glimpse at our next steps, and get together with the friends of Genode, we invite you to our anniversary party: Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/C0luj 1st of September, 6 pm near Drachenschänke in Dresden Enjoy grilled vegetarian or non-vegetarian food, have a drink, chat with the people of Dresden's operating-systems community, and relax at the nice scenery at the river! If you are going to attend, we would greatly appreciate a short note from you to ease our preparations: info@genode-labs.com 2. Flex4Apps project funded by the EU ------------------------------------- We are proud to announce that Genode Labs is part of the German consortium of the Flex4Apps project - funded by the European Union, which is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The Flex4Apps project addresses the challenges of monitoring and optimizing large, distributed, cyber-physical systems. Starting in August 2016, we collaborate with Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia, T-Systems, Fraunhofer, NXP Semiconductors, HiConnect, and Provedo in the German consortium. The goal of the project is to provide a solution to manage the high data volumes and complexity of system monitoring whilst disturbing the target system as little as possible. Our genuine interest in the project is to fathom prospects to establish Genode as a comprehensive platform that scales from small CPS up to cloud infrastructure for data processing and storage. This opens up versatile options to place workloads in the project's usage scenarios. 3. Genode's support for the seL4 kernel is shaping up ----------------------------------------------------- We have experimented with the seL4 microkernel since the end of 2015. Until recently, this line of work was a side project with sporadic activity. However, motivated by the extremely pleasant interaction with the people behind seL4 and the growing popularity of this kernel, we have now ramped up our efforts. The goal is to promote seL4 to a fully and regularly supported Genode base platform. On that account, the upcoming Genode release - scheduled for the end of August - will bring the ability to run interactive and highly dynamic system scenarios on seL4, and to leverage over hundred Genode components on top of this kernel. About the newsletter -------------------- If you have friends or colleagues who might be interested in our projects, we would appreciate you to forward this email. If you received this newsletter as a forwarded email, you may subscribe to the newsletter here: http://genode-labs.com/newsletter In the case of receiving this newsletter unintended, you can cancel your subscription at any time by replying to this email with the subject set to "unsubscribe". Best regards -- Christian Helmuth Genode Labs http://www.genode-labs.com/ · http://genode.org/ https://twitter.com/GenodeLabs · /ˈdʒiː.nəʊd/ Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth
