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Advanced Operating Systems (Udacity)

Offered by Georgia Institute of Technology, Udacity,
Advanced Operating Systems (Udacity)

Abstractions and Virtualization. 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.

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This course is a journey to understanding the role played by the Operating System in providing the rich user experience afforded to modern applications by today’s computers. Along the way, we highlight the symbiotic relationship between hardware and software that makes it possible for the computer and OS to provide a pleasing user experience.

What you will learn

  • 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

Prerequisites and requirements
Students are expected to have taken an undergraduate OS course, or have some experience in industry. A good understanding of the concepts in a standard textbook such as "Operating Systems Concepts," Silberschatz and Galvin (or its equivalent) will be assumed in this course.
Students must also be comfortable with UNIX and C programming.

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