Topics

The Distributed Operating Systems lecture continues and consolidates the topics of the basic course Operating Systems and Security. It is particularly focused on presenting a balanced combination of distributed systems in-use as well as research projects and their underlying construction principles.

Slides

Slides will be published here shortly before the lectures.

1. Scalability and DNS
2. Parallel Systems Software: High Performance Computing, Additional slides (MPI), Additional literature: Paper 1, Paper 2
3. Trusted Computing
4. Distributed File Systems
5. Architecture-level security vulnerabilities
6. Sandboxing
7. Problems in Practice: The Web
8. Side Channel Attacks
9. Synchronisation in Parallel Systems
10. Cache Coherence and Memory Consistency

Exercises

Exercises will be published here about a week before the tutorials. The first tutorial will be on 11 April, 2017.

1. Domain Name System (April 11 2017)
2. Distributed File Systems (May 15 2017, APB 3105)
3. Security (May 29, 2017, APB 1096)
4. Buffer Overflows (June 19th 2017, room APB 3105)
5. Parallel Architectures (June 26 2017)

Organization

• Exercise courses will be held roughly biweekly as announced in the lecture and on the website.