Special-Purpose Operating Systems

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The course “Special-Purpose Operating Systems” (SOS) gives a deeper understanding of modern parallel computer architecture in the area of high-performance, cloud and real-time computing, its system software and its programming models.  The course is divided into the following parts:

 

Requirements to the System Software

• High Performance Computing
• Real-Time Systems
• Benchmarking

Hardware

• Multi- and Manycore-Processors
• Anbindung des Speichers
  • Consistency-Models and Cache Coherence
  • NORMA, UMA, NUMA
• Heterogene Systeme
  • Vecrorization
  • GPUs

System Software

• Basic concepts
  • Monolithic Kernel
  • Microkernels
  • Exokernels, Unikernels, LibraryOS
  • Virtualization (Container, Hypervisor, OpenStack)
  • Interrupt handling, Synchronization Primitives, Scheduling
• System Software for High-Performance Computing
  • mOS, Kitten, L4, McKernel, HermitCore, Catamount
• System Software for Cloud Computing
  • OpenStack, Google Compute Engine
• System Software for Real-Time Computing
  • Real-Time Linux, FreeRTOS, VxWorks
• System-oriented Programming
  • Concurrent und parallele programming

Distributed Systems

• Interconnects
  • Real-Time Networks
    • Media access methods
    • CAN, FlexRay, EtherCAT
  • High Performance Interconnects
    • Ethernet
    • RMA-/RDMA capable Networks (e.g. PCIexpress, InfiniBand)
• System-oriented Programming of Distributed Systems
  • Reliable Distributed Programming
  • Massively Parallel Programming

 

Questions?

In case of questions, please contact acs-teaching-sos@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de.