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Welcome to the home page for CS771/871 for the Spring 1998 semester.
CS781/881 is a graduate level course in operating systems. It assumes that you have already taken an introductory operating systems course (perhaps at the undergraduate level) and are familiar with basic operating systems principles. This course will explore many of these same principles but from the point of view of a distributed system. I have chosen to focus on distributed operating systems because it is becoming increasingly true that no operating system is an island. Because of the emphasis on distributed systems, this course shares issues and concepts from related courses in distributed systems, distributed data bases, networks and communications among others. However, we will focus on the kernel common to distributed systems which permits the proper and efficient management of resources distributed across several CPUs.
This is the second offering of this course, the WEBook for the previous (Fall 1996) offering is also available by clicking here.
In an effort to improve the dissemination of course material
and to help manage the course dynamics, a WEBook is being
developed. This WEBook is an evolving document subject to change
at any time. Although information will be extensively cross
linked, the syllabus will lay out a
road map for the course. New information will be flagged by for at least
one week. Please direct any ideas, suggestions or criticisms to [Dr. Wild]. The end of every
page contains a convenient e-mail link for this purpose.
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