Key words
Architecture of operating systems
Objectives
Being able to comprehend the supporting technologies of modern operating systems and of their peripheral devices, in order to better understand how to manage them.
Topics
- computer systems and operating systems
- typical aspects moderne operating systems: overview of UNIX and Windows architectures.
- processes and threads: states, implementation and management.
- interproces communication: mutual exclusion using software and hardware techniques, using semafores abd monitors, classical problems and their solutions.
- deadlocks: detection, recovery, prevention and avoidance.
- memory managemnt: paging, segmentation, virtual memory, memory management.
- processor scheduling: objectives, algoritms, real-time scheduling, scheduling in UNIX and Windows systems.
- I/O management: I/O hardware and I/O software techniques, disk buffering, disk caching and disk scheduling.
- file systems, introducing NTFS.
Prerequisites
Basic informatics, as taught in the first year Information Technology course
Final Objectives
Materials used
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Syllabus and slides
Study costs
€ 6
Study guidance
The students can make an appointment or e-mail
Teaching Methods
Lectures
Assessment
Written examination (100 %)
However, if a student gains a score of 7 or less on 20 on one of the different courses (parts of training items), he proves that his skill for certain subcompetencies is insufficient. Consequently, one can turn from the arithmetical calculation of the final assignment of quotas of a training item and the new marks can be awarded on consensus. Of course the examiners can judge that the arithmetic regulations mentioned in the study index card can also be used for 7 or less. For each deviation a detailed motivation ought to be drawn up. In that case one should point out that the skill for this subcompetency is proven to be insufficient, if the student didn’t pass the partim that is considered to be important for certain subcompetencies.
Lecturer(s)
Joris MOREAU
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