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02226 High-performance Operating Systems
Danish title: Operativsystemer med høj ydeevne
Language:  English    ECTS-creditpoints:  5, External examination.   
Type:  civil engineering course
Class schedule:   E1-B and only odd years
Exam schedule:   F1-B (May 28 2002), E1-B (Dec 11 2001)
Scope and form:  Lectures. 1 afternoon per week with problemsolving or exercises. One large mandatory exercise.
Evaluation:  Oral presentation and approval of reports
Examination:  13-scale
Previous course:  49421
Prerequisites:  02220
Aim:  To introduce qualitative and quantitative techniques usedin the construction and evaluation of operating systems for computersystems where performance is important, such as for real-timeapplications, communication systems and multimedia systems.
Contents:  Quantitative and algorithmic aspects of real-timescheduling, virtual memory and memory management, task managementand synchronisation in uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems,inter-process communication, drivers and I / O systems, disc and filesystems, networks. Modelling and evaluation of performance. OSarchitecture and technology. Examples: High-speed networking,multimedia systems, graphics.
Contact:  Robin Sharp, building 322, (+45) 4525 3749, ris@imm.dtu.dk
Course URL:  http://www.imm.dtu.dk/courses/02226