CS 6025:Advanced Operating Systems

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
The course focuses on advanced OS concepts such as: memory and process management for high-performance computing and architectures, advanced threading/concurrency, and distributed architectures and computing. The course emphasizes performance modeling with simulation and reading papers on the various advanced topics of operating systems. Discussion of grid computing and cloud computing, virtualization and hypervisors, scheduling for real-time, symmetric multiprocessing and hardware multithreading, effects and control of hardware caches

A research project/paper is to be developed during the second half of the course.