INSS 751 Operating Systems (3)
This course provides a solid understanding of modern operating systems (OS) concepts and trends -- distributed computing, parallel architecture and open systems. Topics include kernel, process and threads, concurrency and deadlock, scheduling, memory management, storage area network (SAN), network attached storage (NAT), disk performance, redundant array of independent (inexpensive) disks (RAID), file systems, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), clusters, middleware, distributed processing and client/server, OS security. Microsoft Windows and Linux basic concepts including overview at both the graphical user interface and command prompt levels, basic tools to manage applications and processes, devices, services, users, drives and partitions, virtual memory (swap files), networking and security. This is a project-oriented course, offering hands on experience on both Windows and Linux.

Prerequisite: INSS 610 or INSS 640.