CMPUT 379 - Operating System Concepts

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

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.

CMPUT 497 - Topics in Computing Science

3 units (fi 6)(VAR, VARIABLE)

This topics course is designed for new course offerings that may be offered in a given term. Prerequisites are determined by the instructor in the course outline. See Note (3) above.

CMPUT 644 - Topics in Computing Science

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