Operating Systems

In the Operating Systems course, students learn how applications interact with the hardware via the operating system, and how the operating system solves various tasks for the applications such as CPU scheduling, and memory and storage management.

Understanding these basics is very important to analyse and tune the performance of a system to a particular application. In the Complex Cyber Infrastructure group, we are often dealing with very high performance hardware, such as 400 Gbps fiber links, and large storage volumes. To have e.g. data-processing applications make full use of this hardware, requires tuning the operating system to the specific workload, and this is where the fundamental operating system knowledge comes in.