Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: OPERATING SYSTEMS AND CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING

Department: Computer Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): COMP 421

Description: 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, super page support; SMP memory and address translation coherence; low-overhead, high-throughput I/O systems; robustness versus performance in file systems.