Systems Programming

Catalog description

CS 4414 exposes students to programming applications at the systems level and to the operating systems abstractions that these applications depend on. It then builds on this foundation to look at systems issues that shape the performance and reliability of modern ML and AI applications, such as “chat bots” and question-answering AIs. We do not expect students to understand how these ML and AI tools work, in a mathematical sense. Instead our focus is on how the execute, where components run and how they talk one another, how they interact with big-data storage, and how they leverage accelerators such as GPU.