Advanced Operating Systems

In this course, we will see all the advances that have led to the state-of-the-art operating system that we know today, covering variety of platforms -- cell phones, multi-core, parallel systems, distributed systems, and cloud computing.

• Abstractions
• Hardware Resources,OS Functionality,Managing the CPU and Memory
• OS Structure
• The SPIN Approach,The Exokernel Approach,The L3 Micro-Kernel Approach
• Virtualization
• Intro to Virtualization,Memory Virtualization,CPU and Device Virtualization
• Parallelism
• Shared Memory Machines,Synchronization,Communication
• Distributed Systems
• Definitions,Lamport Clocks,Latency limits
• Distributed Object Technology
• Spring Operating System,Java RMI,Enterprise Java Beans
• Design and Implementation of Distributed Services
• Global Memory System,Distributed Shared Memory,Distributed File System
• System Recovery
• Lightweight Recoverable Virtual Memory,Rio Vista,Quicksilver
• Internet Scale Computing
• Giant Scale Services,MapReduce,Content Delivery Networks
• Real-Time and Multimedia
• Time sensitive Linux,Persistent temporal streams