CS 4541 - Computer Systems Fundamentals

This course offers an intensive study of computer system design, emphasizing modern operating systems and their impact on application programming. Topics covered include processes and threads, CPU scheduling, process synchronization, deadlock, memory management, caches, virtual memory, virtual machines, shared-memory and message-passing based parallelism, clusters, security and protection, authentication, and cloud computing.

Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: CS 3310 and CS 3240, with a grade of “C” or better in all prerequisites.

Credits: 3 hours