Course content

The subject will establish definitions, principles, frameworks and architectures for modern operating systems.

The subject will focus on processes, thread systems, synchronization, CPU scheduling, memory management, file systems, input-output units, deadlock management, multi-processor systems and security.

Learning outcome

Knowledge - the student understands:

• Which tasks an operating system solves.
• The characteristics of an operating system.
• The critical services provided by an operating system, such as process scheduling, processor management, and memory management.
• How new CPUs running Artificial Intelligence Algorithms are different from traditional CPUs.

Skills - the student can:

• Exploit the operating system effectively, as a system developer, administrator, and end user.
• Write programs using threads and synchronization.

General competence - the student shall know:

• The challenges and solutions for management of resources like processors and memory to effectively and efficiently execute application programs.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and exercises

Compulsory assignments

• Mandatory exercises

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

Courses IDATA2303 Algorithms and data structures and IDATA2003 Programming 2 or equivalent knowledge.

Course materials

Handouts, slides, exercises from other sources will be announced at the start of the semester

Silberschatz's Operating System Concepts, Global Edition

Credit reductions