CMPUT 379 - Operating System Concepts

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-3)

Faculty of Science

Introduction to the structure, components, and concepts behind modern general-purpose operating systems. Processes: process state transitions; operations on processes; interrupt processing; multiprocessor considerations; resource allocation; synchronization; critical sections and events; semaphores; deadlock: avoidance, detection, and recovery; memory management; virtual memory; paging and segmentation; page replacement strategies; working sets; demand paging; process scheduling; scheduling algorithms; file system functions; file organization; space allocation; virtual machines. Prerequisites: CMPUT 201 and 204, or 275; one of CMPUT 229, E E 380 or ECE 212.

No syllabi

Winter Term 2025

Lectures

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LECTURE B1
(73184)
158
2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09 (MWF)
09:00 - 09:50
LECTURE EB1
(73151)
30
2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09 (MWF)
09:00 - 09:50

Labs

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LAB EH01
(73444)
16
2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09 (M)
14:00 - 16:50
LAB EH02
(73095)
5
2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09 (T)
17:00 - 19:50
LAB EH03
(74806)
11
2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09 (R)
14:00 - 16:50
LAB H01
(70795)
71
2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09 (M)
14:00 - 16:50
LAB H02
(73185)
20
2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09 (T)
17:00 - 19:50
LAB H03
(74805)
67
2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09 (R)
14:00 - 16:50