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

1. Scalability and DNS
2. Distributed File Systems
3. Synchronization in Parallel Systems
4. Memory Consistency and Cache Coherency
5. Parallel Systems Software: Overview, MOSIX

Exercises

1. Domain Name System (April 16th, 2013)
2. Distributed File Systems (April 30th, 2013)
3. Parallel Architectures (May 7th, rescheduled)

Organization

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