Operating System Design & Implementation | Carnegie Mellon University

Dive into the fundamentals of operating system design and implementation, including process model, virtual memory, concurrency, threads, and more. Gain a solid foundation for systems programming and OS development.

Introduction

This awesome course covers some fundamental topics of operating system, such as process model, virtual memory concurrency, threads, locking, interrupts, preemptibility, race conditions. It also covers introductory understanding of typical OS topics (file systems, transactions, scheduling, security concepts and technologies, memory consistency) and parallel programming models / frameworks.

Highlights

• Covers fundamental OS topics like process model, virtual memory, concurrency, threads, locking, interrupts, and preemptibility
• Introduces typical OS topics such as file systems, transactions, scheduling, security, and memory consistency
• Includes parallel programming models and frameworks

Recommendation

This course is recommended for students who have taken 15-213/513 (or equivalent) and are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of operating system design and implementation. It provides a solid foundation for those pursuing careers in systems programming or operating system development.