CSCI 635 - Operating Systems

3 Credits
General topics in computer architecture, memory systems design and evaluation, pipeline design techniques, RISC architectures, vector computers, VLSI systems architecture, bootloader, device drivers and I/O. Advanced topics may include: processes and threads, CPU scheduling; process synchronization; deadlock, threads, memory management; cache; main memory; virtual memory; virtual machine; shared-memory and message-passing based parallelism; clusters; database concepts; security and protection; authentication; and cloud computing