CS 523
Advanced Operating Systems

Credit: 4 hours.


Advanced concepts in operating system design and coverage of recent research directions. Resource management for parallel and distributed systems. Interaction between operating system design and computer architectures. Topics include: process management, virtual memory, interprocess communication, context switching, parallel and distributed file system designs, persistent objects, process and data migration, load balancing, security, protection. Term projects. Same as CSE 523. Prerequisite: CS 423, CS 425, and CS 433; or consent of instructor.