Instructor: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Boelter 4532J. Office hours are Mondays 12:00–13:00 and Wednesdays 14:00–15:00.
Assistant: Ian Ku <ianku@ucla.edu>, Boelter 3803. Office hours are Tuesdays 13:30–14:30 and Thursdays 15:30–16:30.
Assistant: Donald Lam <donaldl@cs.ucla.edu>, Boelter 4428. Office hours Tuesdays and Thursdays, 09:30–10:30.
Lecture, 4 hours; laboratory, 2 hours; outside study, 6 hours.
Prerequisites: Computer Science 32, 33.
Introduction to operating systems design and evaluation. Computer software systems performance, robustness, and functionality. Kernel structure, bootstrapping, input/output (I/O) devices and interrupts. Processes and threads; address spaces, memory management, and virtual memory. Scheduling, synchronization. File systems: layout, performance, robustness. Distributed systems: networking, remote procedure call (RPC), asynchronous RPC, distributed file systems, transactions. Protection and security. Exercises involving applications using, and internals of, real-world operating systems. Letter grading.
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