CMPSCI 677: Distributed Operating Systems
Also available to off-campus students via the
Professional Education Program .
Course Description
This course provides an in-depth examination of the principles of
distributed systems in general, and distributed operating systems in
particular. Covered topics include processes and threads, concurrent
programming, distributed interprocess communication, distributed
process scheduling, shared virtual memory, distributed file systems,
security in distributed systems, distributed middleware and
applications such as the web and peer-to-peer systems. Some coverage
of operating system principles for multiprocessors will also be
included. A brief overview of advanced topics such as multimedia
operating systems, real-time operating systems and mobile computing
will be provided, time permitting.
Prerequisites: Students should be able to easily program
in a high-level language such as C, have had a course on data
structures, be familiar with elements of computer architecture and
have had previous exposure to the operating system concepts of
processes, virtual memory, and scheduling. A previous course on
uniprocessor operating systems (e.g., CMPSCI 377) will be helpful but
not required.
Course Information
Instructor: Prashant Shenoy
Teaching Assistant: Purushottam Kulkarni
Schedule #:16724
Credits: 3
Course Staff
Course Materials
This page is online at http://lass.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/courses/677vip/
Prashant Shenoy
Last modified: Thu Sep 4 10:28:57 EDT 2003
