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

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Class Schedule (Spring 2025):
CS 262A – MoWe 09:30-10:59, Soda 310 – Ion Stoica

Class homepage on inst.eecs

Related Areas:

• Database Management Systems (DBMS)
• Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
• Security (SEC)