CS 6025:Operating Systems

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CS 5020
Courses that may be taken concurrently:
CS 5040
This course covers Operating Systems topics including memory and process management for high-performance computing and architectures, advanced threading/concurrency, and distributed architectures and computing. The course provides in-depth study of operating systems with emphasis on performance modeling with simulation and reading research 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. This course includes a research project.