Prasun Dewan, Sitterson 150
Distribution area: Systems
Project: Build the kernel of a distributed operating system
This is a graduate-level course on the design and implementation of modern operating systems. It will be assumed you have taken an undergraduate course in operating systems. The topics covered will be related but complementary to the ones you may have seen in CS 203 and CS 243. We will study single-processor, multiprocessor, and distributed operating systems; stationary and mobile systems, and hierarchical, object-oriented, and microkernel-based implementations. You will implement the microkernel of a distributed operating system based on the Xinu implementation framework; and implement a distributed terminal service on top of the microkernel. For more details, look at the web site http://www.cs.unc.edu/~dewan/242/s06/index.html