CPSI 38003 - (was CPSC 3380) Operating Systems

Three hours lecture. Three credit hours.

Was CPSC 3380. An exploration of the hardware designs, data structures, and algorithms that inform operating-system design. Topics include hardware privilege levels and their interaction with privileged software instructions, process creation and management, scheduling algorithms, security aspects, multithreading/concurrency, and data consistency implications of asynchronous systems.

Prerequisites: CPSI 27603 or equivalent and MATH 2310 or equivalent.