Concurrent Programming and Foundations of Operating Systems

Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics
Bloomsburg University

Spring 2009
MWF 1:00-1:50 in CEH-219.

Professor: Drue Coles
Email: dcoles@bloomu.edu
Office: 235 Ben Franklin Hall
Phone: 389-4626
Office Hours: 2:00-3:00 each weekday.

Text: Operating System Concepts with Java, Wiley, 2007.

Prerequisites: 56.255 (Data Structures using C++)

This course examines the foundations of modern operating systems and the concurrent programming problems associated with these systems. Java and C will be used to implement multithreaded applications and algorithms for CPU scheduling, process synchronization, deadlock avoidance, resource allocation, etc.

Schedule:

Introduction

High-level view of OS organization
Operating system services and structures
History of UNIX and Linux

Command Line Basics
Process Management

Processes and threads
CPU scheduling
Process synchronization
Deadlocks

Memory Management

Main memory
Virtual memory

Secondary Storage

File-System Interface
File-System Implementation

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