Graduate Operating Systems ((3))

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This course exposes students to recent developments in operating systems research and design. Course lectures and reading assignments will be on classic and recent papers that shaped the field on a range of topics, including OS design, virtual memory management, file systems, virtualization, concurrency and synchronization, cloud systems, heterogeneity, and security. The course also exposes students to basic system-building and evaluation methodologies through programming assignments and a final project. Each week lecture meets for 150 minutes.