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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2008
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COMP 521 001 (CRN: 12532)
ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS
Long Title: OPERATING SYSTEMS AND CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING
Department: Computer Science
Instructor: Cox, Alan L.
Meeting: 2:30PM - 3:50PM TR (25-AUG-2008 - 5-DEC-2008)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 4
Course Syllabus:
Prerequisites: COMP 421
Section Max Enrollment: 20
Section Enrolled: 7
Enrollment data as of: 11-MAY-2024 1:35AM
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.