COMP 521 - ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Department: Computer Science
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4
Description: ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Advanced topics in the design and implementation of state-of-the-art operating systems for general-purpose computation, emphasizing solutions to performance and scalability bottlenecks that are common with today's commercial and scientific workloads: process and thread management; NUMA memory management, superpage support; SMP memory and address translation coherence; low-overhead, high-throughput I/O systems; robustness versus performance in file systems.
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Prerequisite(s): COMP 421.
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Course offered Fall 2004.
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Instructor(s): Cox.