The lecture is about new concepts currently introduced to different areas of operating systems. The lectures typically start with describing the functionality of the operating system area, how the requirements for that changed in the last time and how the new elements are - or try to be - a way to solve that. The course enables the attendee to understand the new concepts which are important for larger production environments.

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Oral Exam

Name	Date and Time	Room
Veselin Marinov	27.09.2012 9:00	A313
Tobias Johannes Boll	27.09.2012 9:30	A313
Bastian Christoph	27.09.2012 10:00	A313
Jan Niklas Dornbach	27.09.2012 11:00	A313
Andreas Freimuth	27.09.2012 11:30	A313
Tim Grube	27.09.2012 12:00	A313
Rene Herling	27.09.2012 13:30	A313
Kadir Inac	27.09.2012 14:00	A313
Todor Vanen Ivanov	27.09.2012 14:30	A313
Dimitrios Karousos	27.09.2012 15:30	A313
Jan Erik Keller	27.09.2012 16:00	A313
Mirko Sebastian Köhler	27.09.2012 16:30	A313
Bastian Alexander Laur	28.09.2012 9:00	E202
Shahrazad Obaid	28.09.2012 9:30	E202
Florian Oswald	28.09.2012 10:00	E202
Kang Qian	28.09.2012 11:00	E202

Slides

	Lecture Topic	Slides
1	Introduction	Slides (pdf, 0.34MB)
2	Input/Output	Slides (pdf, 0.25MB)
3	High Availability	Slides (pdf, 0.34MB)
4	HA Cluster Technologies	Slides (pdf, 0.42MB)
5	Memory	Slides (pdf, 0.24MB)
6	CPU / Scheduling	Slides (pdf, 0.24MB)
7	Network	Slides (pdf, 0.63MB)
8	Miscellaneous	Slides (pdf, 0.29MB)
9	OS Security	Slides (pdf, 0.24MB)
10	Volume Management / SAN / Filesystem Aspects	Slides (pdf, 0.36MB)
11	Filesystems in Detail	Slides (pdf, 0.12MB)
12	Virtualization I	Slides (pdf, 1.4MB)
13	Virtualization II	Slides (pdf, 0.4MB)

Papers and (online) Resources

• Douglas Engelbart Pioneer in the area workstation, mouse, hypertext, telecooperation; see also The Mother of all Demos where nearly all aspects of a modern workstation (PC) are presented in 1968.
• Joseph-Marie Jacquard used punch cards in the Jacquard loom to simplify the manufacturing of textiles with complex patterns.
• Herman Hollerith created punch cards and machines to help the US polls of 1890.
• Solaris 10 Ressource Management Projects, Tasks, Fair Share Scheduler, Ressource Pools contains also informations about Solaris Containers (Zones)
• time sharing dispatcher parameter table Solaris: table controlled scheduler
• ZFS presentation (german) Slides up to slide 25 presented in Lesson 11
• Container Leitfaden (german) More material about OS Virtualization and its use.

Books

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  Modern Operating Systems, 3/E
  ISBN-13: 978-0138134594
  
• Richard Mc Dougall, Jim Mauro, et al.
  Solaris Internals, 2nd Edition
  ISBN: 0131482092