Topics - Broad Outlines

Distributed Operating Systems

• Security
  • Encryption
  • Authentication
• File Systems
  • File Coherence
  • Bottlenecks
• Syncronization
  • Time
  • Mutex
• Deadlocks
• Distributed Shared Memory
• Administration
• Process Location (and Migration)
• Distributed DataBases

Advanced Uniprocessor OS

• Performance Enhancement
  • VM (slab allocation, page coloring..)
  • OpenGL/X Sync
  • High Performance File Systems
    • Journaling
    • Small-file allocation