The software that runs the machine, and the art of doing many things at once. Processes and threads, scheduling, memory and file systems — then the subtle world of concurrency, where races, locks and deadlocks lurk.

This subject course follows the topic vertically, across the years it spans. The lessons are still being written — each is shown as a placeholder.

Year 2 — Operating Systems

1. Processes and the Process Model
2. Threads and the Thread Model
3. CPU Scheduling
4. Memory Management
5. Virtual Memory and Paging
6. File Systems
7. I/O and Interrupts
8. Synchronization Primitives
9. Deadlock

Year 2 — Concurrency

1. Threads vs Processes
2. Race Conditions
3. Locks and Mutexes
4. Semaphores
5. Monitors and Condition Variables
6. Deadlock and Livelock
7. Parallel Programming Models