OPERATING SYSTEMS

Catalog description

Covers operating system's fundamental concepts and structure. Topics include: operating systems architecture, processes and threads, mutual exclusion and synchronization, deadlock and starvation, memory management and virtual memory, and processor scheduling. Emphasis on operating system design issues, techniques, and trade-offs; includes a hands-on introduction to multithreaded and multicore programming issues and approaches. Pre-requisites: A grade of 'C' or better in CS-253 .