CS550: Advanced Operating Systems
Semester: Fall 2023
Lecture Time: Tuesday/Thursday 11:25am - 12:40pm
Lecture Location: IIT Tower, Room 1F6-1
Professor:
Dr. Ioan Raicu (iraicu@cs.iit.edu)
Office Hours Time: Tuesday 1PM-2PM (SB226B)
Teaching Assistants (cs550-ta-group@iit.edu):
• Lan Nguyen
Office Hours: Monday 1PM-2PM, Thursday 3PM-4PM (SB007)
• Sonal Gaikwad
Office Hours: Wednesday/Thursday 2PM-3PM (SB007)
Adarsh Agrawal
Office Hours: Tuesday/Friday 1PM-2PM (SB007)
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Course Overview:
This course covers general issues of design and implementation of distributed systems. The focus is on issues that are critical to the applications of distributed systems and computer networks, which include interprocess communication, distributed processing, sharing and replication of data and files. Approximately two third of the course will be devoted to basic concepts and techniques, and the remaining third will be on assorted current topics in modern distributed systems. For a detailed syllabus, click here.
REQUIRED Text Book: Maarten van Steen and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. “Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms”, Prentice Hall, 4th Edition, 2023
This course will use BlackBoard to facilitate discussions and communication. BB should be the primary mechanism of communication between the students and the professor and the TAs. If you have a question and want to reach only the TAs and professor, send email to cs550-ta-group@iit.edu. As a last resort, send individual email directly to the professor at (iraicu@cs.iit.edu.
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