| Description |
This course is an in-depth study of important concepts and techniques
found in modern computer operating systems. An undergraduate course
in operating systems is a prerequisite. The course focuses on in-depth
study of such important issues as virtual memory, filesystems, networking,
and multiprocessor support, with an eye to recent directions in these
areas. Textbook readings are supplemented, where appropriate, by papers
from the research literature. An important part of the course is the
case study of an actual operating system. Students study the source
code for this operating system, and do programming exercises and projects
that involve modifying the operating system and measuring its performance.
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