Operativsystem

Om kursen

The goal of the course is to introduce the students to modern operating systems design. Both practical and theoretical aspects of operating Systems will be studied. The course will cover 5 main topics, namely,
Module 1: Introduction
This module will provide a top level description of modern operating systems.

Module 2: kernels and processes 
Introduces the students to the design and implementation of different operating system kernels in some details.

Module 3: concurrency, synchronization and scheduling
In this module we will cover threads and the semantics of concurrency, synchronization of multi-threaded programs, deadlocks, race conditions, processor scheduling and other related topics.

Module 4: memory management
We will cover topics related to memory such as hardware and software address translation mechanisms, caching and virtual memory. 

Module 5: I/O and File Systems
This module introduces the students to the File system abstraction, different storage devices and filesystems 

We will flip the classroom for this course, a technique that has been proven very effective to improve the learning of students. To flip the classroom, we will use the Scalable-Learning platform developed at Uppsala ( https://www.scalable-learning.com/). Labs and assignments will include work with an embedded operating system, a mobile operating system, and a desktop server operating system.

Course Book: The book used will be mainly "Operating Systems: Principles and Practice" by Thomas Anderson (Author), Michael Dahlin  the 2014 edition (or later). The course will follow the book closely while making use of a lot of the excellent open-source materials on the topic.