02226 High-performance Operating Systems

Operativsystemer med høj ydeevne

Type: PhD-level, Open University.
Language: E

Credit points: 5

Prerequisites: 02220, Concurrent Systems.

Desirable prerequisites: 02200, Digital Design and Computer Organisation.

Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester

Class schedule: E1B, Thursday afternoon (even years only)

Exam schedule: E1B, F1B

Scope and form: Seminar with student presentations. Exercise classes with problem solving or exercises. One large mandatory exercise.

Examination: Evaluation of student presentation and final mandatory exercise (13-scale).
NOTE: This means that there is no ordinary written exam. The tasks on which the report is to be written will be handed out about 4 weeks before the end of term, and reports must be handed in on Friday 17 December.

Contact: Robin Sharp, building 322, tel. 4525 3749, http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~robin, e-mail: robin@imm.dtu.dk,

Department: Informatics and Mathematical Modelling

Aim: To introduce qualitative and quantitative techniques used in the construction and evaluation of operating systems for computer systems where performance is important, such as for real-time applications, very large computations, communication systems and multimedia systems.

Contents: Quantitative and algorithmic aspects of scheduling, virtual memory and memory management, task management and synchronisation in multiprocessor systems.

Inter-process communication, shared memory, disc and filesystems, I/O systems, networks. Resource allocation and load balancing. Modelling and evaluation of performance. OS architecture and technology.

Keywords: Operating systems; modelling; performance evaluation; system architecture.

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