Coursebooks

Introduction to operating systems

CS-323

Lecturer(s) :

Payer Mathias Josef

Language:

English

Summary

Introduction to basic concepts of operating systems.

Content

The purpose of this course is to discuss the design of operating systems, and operating systems concepts. Topics we will cover include operating system organization, system programming, networked and distributed systems, and storage systems. Most of the time will be spent on multi-process systems (processes, interprocess communication, and synchronization), memory organization(paging), resource allocation and scheduling, file systems, and I/O.

Core topics:

• Function and general structure of an operating system.
• Process management.
• Memory management.
• File systems.
• Virtualization and virtual machines.

Keywords

Operating systems

Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

CS-206 Parallelisme and concurrency

CS-207 Systems programming

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

• Manage key components of operating system

Teaching methods

Lectures and exercises.

Expected student activities

Attendance at lectures and completing exercises.

Assessment methods

Midterm and final during the semester.

30% assignments, 30% midterm, 40% final.

Supervision

Office hours	Yes
Assistants	Yes
Forum	Yes

Resources

Bibliography

Operating Systems : Three Easy Pieces, R. Arpaci-Dusseau and A. Arpaci-Dusseau (free online book).

Slides available on Moodle.

Ressources en bibliothèque

• Operating Systems : Three Easy Pieces / Arpaci-Dusseau

Références suggérées par la bibliothèque

• Operating Systems Concepts / Silberschatz