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  • Operating Systems / Sistemas Operativos (2018)

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    Teaching Faculty

    Pablo Prieto Torralbo

    Department of Computer Engineering and Electronics

       

       

      

       

       

    In this subject, the student will discover the activity of the Operating System, dividing it into three basic components: Resource Virtualization, Concurrency and Persistence. The student will learn the different policies and mechanisms used by operating systems, along with the hardware, and how it provides basic services through system calls. Additionally, the student will learn to operate in a Unix environment (GNU-Linux) both from the point of view of user and programmer, making use of the shell, as well as the C language and the necessary Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

       

    Keywords

    Computers, Operating Systems, C Programming Language, Scheduling, Memory, Concurrency, File System, Unix, Linux, System Calls.

  • Course Details

    Course Details

     

      

    Course Information

    • Course: Operating Systems / Sistemas Operativos

    • Code: G850

    • Department / Unit: Department of Computer Engineering and Electronics

    • Degree: Degree in Computer Engineering

    • Faculty: School of Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications

    • ECTS credits: 6

    • Language of instruction: English

    • Instructor: Pablo Prieto Torralbo

      

     

      

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    • Topic 1. Introduction.
    • Topic 2. Virtualizing CPU.
    • Topic 3. Memory virtualization.
    • Topic 4. Concurrency.
    • Topic 5. Persistance.