Fall 2000: CS 771/871 Operating Systems
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- ATM (Asynchronous
Transfer Mode):
- Availability:
- is the fraction of time the system is usable.
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- Causally
Related Events
- Clock Skew
- Computer
Clock
- Concurrent
Events
- Critical Section
- Section of code which can not be manipluates a shared
resource. Should not be simulataneously active by more
than one process.
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- Crossbar Switch
- Deadlock: Occurs when a set of processes
are blocked waiting requests that CAN NEVER BE SATISFIED,
- Distributed System
- A distributed system is a collection of independent
computers that appear to the users of the system as a
single computer (tanenbaum).
See also Goscinski.
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- Fault Tolerance:
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- is the ability to provide service even in the
face of system failures.
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- IP
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- memory coherence
- property whereby all CPUs will access the same value at a
particular memory location
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- micro kernel
- Provides minimal service (interprocess communications,
some memory management, low level process management and
scheduling, low level I/O)
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- Omega Switch
- OSI Open Systems
Interconnection Model
- Parameter
Marshaling
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- Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)
- Serializable Schedule:
- A schedule of transactions is serializable if there is a
order for running the transactions sequentially which
gives the same results.
- SONET (Synchronous
Optical NETwork)
- SDH (Synchronous Digital
Hierarchy).
- Strict Two
Phase Locking
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- Virtual synchrony
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- X.25
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