ECEG-6501: ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS

Review basic concepts in Operating systems; Distributed mutual exclusion, Deadlock, file
systems, shared memory, scheduling; Fault Tolerance and Recovery, Multiprocessor
Operating Systems; Protection and Security in Distributed Systems; Real/Embedded
Operating Systems; Virtual machines , Middleware for grid computing, Os systems modeling
and performance measurement , Clusters.
 ECEG-6501 Advanced Operating Systems
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Exercises (y / n) n y n/n
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Local reviewer’s comment:
Course Code ECEG-6501 Advanced Operating Systems
General
Comparison The first and the last links contain most topics discussed. The second
and the third contain some of the topics this is so because the
description given are not detailed.
Range of
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Remark

General content evaluation:

Course name ECEG-6501 Advanced Operating Systems

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~awang/courses/cop5611_s2004/ contains most of

1
the topics

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-
Links and 2 Science/6-828Fall-2006/CourseHome/index.htm - additional content and
Comments exercise as well as laboratory

3 http://cs.haifa.ac.il/courses/AdvancedOS/ - additional content

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9242/06/lectures/ contains most of the

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topics and also laboratory
Range of Low to medium level by using link one and four with supplement from
Customization two and three