Catalog Description: Graduate survey of systems for managing computation and information, covering a breadth of topics: early systems; volatile memory management, including virtual memory and buffer management; persistent memory systems, including both file systems and transactional storage managers; storage metadata, physical vs. logical naming, schemas, process scheduling, threading and concurrency control; system support for networking, including remote procedure calls, transactional RPC, TCP, and active messages; security infrastructure; extensible systems and APIs; performance analysis and engineering of large software systems. Homework assignments, exam, and term paper or project required.
Units: 4
Prerequisites: COMPSCI 162 and entrance exam.
Formats:
Fall: 3.0 hours of lecture per week
Spring: 3.0 hours of lecture per week
Grading basis: letter
Final exam status: No final exam
Class Schedule (Fall 2022):
WeFr 14:30-15:59, Soda 310 –
John Kubiatowicz, Zhuohan Li
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