Principles of Operating Systems I

3 credits · Graduate School

(Also listed as CS 3281) Resource allocation and control functions of operating systems. Scheduling of processes and processors. Concurrent processes and primitives for their synchronization. Use of parallel processes in designing operating system subsystems. Methods of implementing parallel processes on conventional computers. Virtual memory, paging, protection of shared and non-shared information. Structures of data files in secondary storage. Security issues. Case studies. No credit for students who have earned credit for 3281. FALL, SPRING. [3]