Advanced Operating Systems

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Abstractions and Virtualization

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Estimated time
Approx. 5 Weeks
Skill level
Advanced
Prerequisites
See prerequisites in detail

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About this course

In this course, we will see all the advances that have led to the state-of-the-art operating system that we know today, covering variety of platforms -- cell phones, multi-core, parallel systems, distributed systems, and cloud computing.

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What you will learn

Abstractions
- Hardware Resources
- OS Functionality
- Managing the CPU and Memory
OS Structure
- The SPIN Approach
- The Exokernel Approach
- The L3 Micro-Kernel Approach
Virtualization
- Intro to Virtualization
- Memory Virtualization
- CPU and Device Virtualization
Parallelism
- Shared Memory Machines
- Synchronization
- Communication
Distributed Systems
- Definitions
- Lamport Clocks
- Latency limits
Distributed Object Technology
- Spring Operating System
- Java RMI
- Enterprise Java Beans
Design and Implementation of Distributed Services
- Global Memory System
- Distributed Shared Memory
- Distributed File System
System Recovery
- Lightweight Recoverable Virtual Memory
- Rio Vista
- Quicksilver
Internet Scale Computing
- Giant Scale Services
- MapReduce
- Content Delivery Networks
Real-Time and Multimedia
- Time sensitive Linux
- Persistent temporal streams

Prerequisites and requirements

Students are expected to have taken an undergraduate OS course, or have some experience in industry. A good understanding of the concepts in a standard textbook such as "Operating Systems Concepts," Silberschatz and Galvin (or its equivalent) will be assumed in this course.

Students must also be comfortable with UNIX and C programming.

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Why take this course?

This course is a journey to understanding the role played by the Operating System in providing the rich user experience afforded to modern applications by today’s computers. Along the way, we highlight the symbiotic relationship between hardware and software that makes it possible for the computer and OS to provide a pleasing user experience.

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Kishore Ramachandran
Instructor
Charles Brubaker
Instructor