CM10195: Computer Systems Architecture 2

CM10195 Computer Systems Architecture 2

Consolidation Week

Week 6, starting Monday 8th March, is a consolidation week, when there will be no new material for this Unit.

Unit Catalogue

CM10195

Some texts

Operating Systems: OSs have been around nearly as long as computers, so there are many books -- just pick one!

"Operating Systems Internal and Design Principles" W Stallings, Prentice Hall
"Computer Systems Architecture A Networking Approach" R Williams, Addison-Wesley
"Introduction to Operating Systems Behind the Desktop" J English, Palgrave
"Operating Systems a Concept-Based Approach" D M Dhamdhere, McGraw Hill
"Operating Systems Concepts with Java" A Silbershatz et al, Wiley

Books on Networking:

"TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1" W R Stevens, Addison-Wesley
"Computer Networks" A Tanenbaum, Pearson
"The Art of Computer Networking" R Bradford, Pearson

Some links

Wikipedia page
A list of OSs
A catalogue of OSs
Introduction to JCL
A list of scheduling algorithms
A recent article on scheduling
Priority Inversion on Mars
List of device bandwidths
Homebrew Cray-1A a 1/10-scale binary compatible working model of an iconic computer
40 Years of the Internet, from the BBC
SWERN
JANET
GEANT2
RFC editor's home page
SSL/TLS and RFC2246
Slides for a talk on encapsulation, tunnelling and security (OpenVPN)

Past Papers

Past papers

The Coursework

Coursework accounts for 30% of the unit total. It consists of

An essay on Operating System issues (15%)
Also see: the Bath Harvard reference style
A networking exercise (15%)

The Exam

At the end of the semester (70%).

Moodle

Not much on the Moodle page.

Slides

All the OS slides in one big PDF.

Slides

Note that these slides are reminders to me as to what topics I should cover: you are expected to read around the subject and refer to your lecture notes. Don't treat the slides as the entirety of your study. The slides are necessarily brief in style and their content would not often constitute a full answer to an exam question.

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