August 27, 2008

- About the Instructor

- What is an Operating System?

- Examples of Operating Systems Design

- Why Study Operating Systems?

1. Introduction: What is an Operating System?
2. Concurrency: Processes, Threads, and Address Spaces
3. Thread Dispatching
4. Cooperating Threads
5. Synchronization
6. Language Support for Synchronizatio
7. Cooperating Processes and Deadlock
8. Deadlock (Cont.) and Thread Scheduling
9. Thread Scheduling (Cont.) and Address Spaces
10. Protection (Cont.) and Address Translation
11. Address Translation (Cont.), Caches and TLBs
12. Caching and Demand Paging
13. Page Allocation and Replacement
14. Page Allocation and Replacement (Cont.)
15. Disk Management and File Systems
16. File Systems, Naming and Directories
17. File Systems (Cont.) and Distributed Systems
18. Distributed Systems (Cont.)
19. Networking
20. Networking III
21. Network Communication Abstractions
22. ManyCore Operating Systems
23. ManyCore Operating Systems (Cont.)

In this course, Prof. John D. Kubiatowicz gives 23 video lectures on Operating Systems and System Programming. 



Topics discussed in this course are:

- Basic concepts of Operating Systems and System Programming.

- Utility Programs, Subsystems, Multiple-program Systems.

- Processes, Interprocess Communication, and Synchronization.

- Memory Allocation, Segmentation, Paging.

- Loading and Linking, Libraries.

- Resource Allocation, Scheduling, Performance Evaluation.

- File Systems, Storage Devices, I-O Systems.

- Protection, Security, and Privacy.



Course Details: 

- UC Berkeley Webcast

- CS162 - Spring 2007



Original Course Name: Computer Science 162 - Spring 2007.