Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Computer Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): COMP 421. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Cox.