Distributed Operating Systems

Note on the Procedure

The lecture will take place this semester, but until further notice in the form of videos for download. If you are interested in this lecture, please register on the mailing list as soon as possible. Please use your TU Dresden address.

Registration if Interested
Lecturer Dr. Michael Roitzsch, Dr. Carsten Weinhold
Module INF-BAS4, INF-VERT4, INF-BI-1, INF-04-FG-AVS, MINF-04-FG-SAT, DSE-10-E4 , DSE-14-E3 , IST-05-FG-AVS
Scope and Type

2 SWS lecture, 1 SWS exercise
Cycle Summer semester
Time and Place

Lecture: Monday, 11.10 AM, APB E008
Exercise: Tuesday, 9.20 AM, APB E006 (bi-weekly)
Mailing List

Please subscribe using a TU Dresden address

Contents

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.

The lecture covers the following aspects:

  • Scalability and Fault Tolerance
  • Memory Consistency and Synchronization in Parallel Systems
  • Security in Distributed Systems and Trusted Computing

Slides

Slides will be published here shortly before the lectures.

Exercises

Exercises will be published here about a week before the tutorials.

21.04.2020: Exercise 1: Scalability and DNS

05.05.2020: Exercise 2: Distributed File Systems

19.05.2020: Exercise 3: Buffer Overflows

09.06.2020: Exercise 4: Trusted Computing

30.06.2020: Exercise 5: Memory Consistency, Cache Coherence, and Locks

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Manuel Thieme
Last modified: Jul 12, 2020
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