Modern Operating Systems (4th Edition)
Recent research suggests that it is no longer the underlying computer systems or the networks that areroadblocks to high-performanceInternet applications but the software.In this course we will examine existingInternet systems and applications and their performanceand hopefully develop new techniques that willenable such systems to better exploitmodern high-speed networks.In addition we will investigate techniques forimproving performance andhiding latencies in systems with slow network connections.
Modern Operating Systems (4th Edition)
Possible topics of discussion, readings, and study are:widely used and emerging Internet applications, web servers, web proxies, caching, high-speed networks,operating systems, disk architecture, file systems,and experimental design.
General prerequisites, including Operating Systems (CS 354),a good understanding of operating systems concepts, C and UNIX programming skills.Distributed Systems (CS 454) is highly recommended.The System Performance and Evaluation course (CS 457) is strongly recommended for students interested in doing research insystems or networks.
Distributed Computing Systems CS 4513 D-term 2014 This course extends the study of the design and implementation ofoperating systems begun in CS 3013 to distributed and advancedcomputer systems. Topics include principles and theories of resourceallocation, file systems, protection schemes, and performanceevaluation as they relate to distributed and advanced computersystems. Students may be expected to design and implement programsthat emphasize the concepts of file systems and distributed computingsystems using current tools and languages. (Undergraduate credit maynot be earned both for this course and for CS 502.)
You should already own a textbook from your Operating System course.You will need this for material on file systems. E.g., AndrewS. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 3rd edition, PrenticeHall, 2008. Other Operating Systems books (e.g., recent books bySilberschatz) may be suitable.
This book documents many modules, from the standard library and other sources, for client- and server-side network programming, databases, processing text and binary files, and interacting with operating systems.
and possibly other messages. What you are seeing here is a bootprompt presented by LILO (the LInux LOader), aprogram used to boot the Linux operating system and specifyhardware-detection parameters at boot time. After you have installedLinux, you may wish to install LILO on your harddrive, which allows you to select between Linux and other operatingsystems (such as Windows) when the system is booted.
Drives and partitions under Linux are given different names fromtheir counterparts under other operating systems. Under Windows,floppy drives are referred to as A: andB:, while hard-drive partitions are namedC:, D:, and so on. Under Linux,the naming convention is quite different.
Keep in mind that none of the changes you make while runningfdisk takes effect until you give thew command, so you can toy with differentconfigurations and save them when you're done. Also,if you want to quit fdisk at any time withoutsaving the changes, use the q command. Rememberthat you shouldn't modify partitions for operatingsystems other than Linux with the Linux fdiskprogram.
Before youcan use your Linux partitions to storefiles, you must create filesystems on them. Creating a filesystem isanalogous to formatting a partition under Windows or other operatingsystems. We discussed filesystems briefly in Section 2.2.3 in Chapter 2.
Many distributions give you the option ofinstallingLILO on your hard drive. LILOis a program that resides on your drive's masterboot record. It boots a number of operating systems, includingWindows and Linux, and allows you to select to which boot at startuptime.
In order for LILO to be installed successfully, itneeds to know a good deal of information about your driveconfiguration: for example, which partitions contain which operatingsystems, how to boot each operating system, and so on. Manydistributions, when installing LILO, attempt to"guess" at the appropriateparameters for your configuration. Occasionally, the automatedLILO installation provided by some distributionscan fail and leave your master boot record in shambles (howeverit's very doubtful that any damage to the actualdata on your hard drive will take place). In particular, if you useOS/2's Boot Manager, you shouldnot install LILO using theautomated procedure; there are special instructions for usingLILO with the Boot Manager, which will be coveredin Chapter 5. 041b061a72