Operating Systems - COMP50004
Aims
In this module you will have the opportunity to:
- develop an understanding of the main operating system abstractions
- explore the trade-offs in the implementations of operating system functionality
- study the different sub-systems that make up a modern operating system
- investigate different operating system mechanisms and policies for resource management and allocation
- apply a theoretical understanding of operating systems to a real-world operating system implementation
Role
Course Leader
Scalable Systems and Data - COMP70022
Aims
In this module you will have the opportunity to:
- get an overview of data centre technologies, the infrastructure needed to run a variety of workloads, and the design decisions when engineering scalable distributed applications.
- analyze the full system stack for managing and scheduling data-centre resources
- discuss the design principles for scalable systems
- investigate concepts and techniques to build large scale systems, with a focus on distributed storage, coordination, computation and resource allocation.
- get an overview of NewSQL and NoSQL technologies
- understand new data models, their associated query languages and systems
- discuss new storage technology and its impact on query execution and data management systems in general.
Role
Course Leader