Arrakis has been fully merged back with Barrelfish. All current and future releases are maintained on the Barrelfish website.

FlexNIC, a vision for a new way to conduct fast network DMA, got accepted to HotOS 2015! The paper is available on the publications page.

Our team received the Madrona prize for most likely entrepreneurial success at the UW CSE industry affiliates meeting!

Our paper received the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI this year!

Arrakis is going to appear in the upcoming OSDI 2014 conference in Broomfield, Colorado! Once published, we will link to the OSDI version of the paper from this website.

We’re delighted to release the first public version of Arrakis! Please go to our Download page where you can find it along with more detailed release information.

We describe how data center applications can use Arrakis for fast access to storage devices in our upcoming HotStorage paper. We will post a link to the Publications page soon!

We’ve updated the technical report! The new report shows how the control/data plane abstraction can be used for integrated user-level access to storage and the network, plus an evaluation of several server applications using this powerful new abstraction.

We’ve submitted the first full Arrakis conference paper! The paper presents Arrakis’ fundamental architecture with a focus on improving network I/O performance. The gains are quite dramatic with respect to classical OS architectures. The tech report version of the paper can be found on the Publications page.

The latest issue of USENIX ;login: features an article on Arrakis’ vision. Be sure to check it out! The publications page has a link to the article.

Arrakis’ vision got accepted to HotOS’13! Paper downloadable on the Publications page soon.