Operating Systems and Systems Programming

3–5 credits · Undergraduate

Covers key concepts in computer systems through the lens of operatingnsystem design and implementation. Topics include threads, scheduling,nprocesses, virtual memory, synchronization, multi-core architectures,nmemory consistency, hardware atomics, memory allocators, linking, I/O,nfile systems, and virtual machines. Concepts are reinforced with fournkernel programming projects in the Pintos operating system. This classnmay be taken as an accelerated single-class alternative to the CS111,nCS112 sequence; conversely, the class should not be taken by studentsnwho have already taken CS111 or CS112