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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 (odd years only)
Exam schedule: E1B, F1B
Scope and form: Lectures. Exercise class with problem solving or exercises. One large mandatory exercise.
Examination: Evaluation of mandatory exercise with oral presentation (13-scale; the oral presentation has a small but significant weight).
NOTE: This means that there is no ordinary written exam. The tasks on which the report is to be written will be handed out 4 weeks before the end of term, and reports must be handed in on the last teaching day (Thursday, 6 December). Details of the dates for the oral presentations will be given later.
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, communication systems and multimedia systems.
Contents: Quantitative and algorithmic aspects of real-time scheduling, virtual memory and memory management, task management and synchronisation in uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems, inter-process communication, drivers and I/O systems, disc and file systems, networks. Modelling and evaluation of performance. OS architecture and technology. Examples: High-speed networking, multimedia systems, graphics.
Keywords: Operating systems; modelling; performance evaluation; system architecture.
Robin Sharp
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