Operating systems (OS) provide the crucial interface between a computer's hardware and the applications that run on it. It allows us to write programs without bothering much about the hardware. It also ensures that the computer's resources such as its CPU, hard disk, and memory, are appropriately utilized. In this course, we dwell into how the OS manages to do all this in an efficient manner. This is an introductory course, for students with prior knowledge of computer organization. The course is based on an OS called xv6, which in many ways is similar to the Linux operating systems.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
B.E./Msc (Computer Science)
PRE-REQUISITES
good knowledge of C, Computer Organization and Architecture, x86 Assembly level programming.
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COURSE INSTRUCTOR
Chester Rebeiro is an Assistant Professor at IIT Madras. He completed his PhD from IIT Kharagpur and a post-doc from Columbia University. His research interests are in cryptography, system security, especially hardware and operating system security. (webpage : http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~chester/)
MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE COURSE
Course url:https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_cs10 Course duration :08 weeks Start date and end date of course: 18 July 2016 - 9 September 2016 Dates of exams :18 September 2016 & 25 September 2016 Time of exam : 2pm - 5pm Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form. Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly Exam Fee: The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000(non-Programming)/1250(Programming) needs to be paid.
CERTIFICATE
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam.
Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final
exam. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
COURSE LAYOUT
Introduction
Memory Management
Processes
Interrupts and Context Switching
Scheduling
Synchronization
Deadlocks
Operating System Security
REFERENCE BOOK
''xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system", Revision 8, by Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris
''Operating System Concepts'', 8th edition, by Adraham Silberschatz, Pert B. Galvin, and Greg Gagne, Wiley-India edition
''Modern Operating Systems'', 3rd edition, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, PHI Learning Private Limited, New Delhi
