Course Description

Updated on 25 April 2011

Please see change to required textbook in Syllabus.
The CSU bookstore ordered the most recent edition -- which comes out Friday of this week!
Hence there are NO used or digitized copies available.

This is the first new edition in more than five years.

Advanced topics in concurrency, deadlock protection, scheduling, computer system modeling, virtual memory management, distributed and interprocess communication, distributed transactions and computations, and distributed system design from the operating systems viewpoint.

This is an online course being offered during the full twelve weeks of the 2011 summer session.
This course is not self-paced.
Various types of assignments are due throughout the twelve weeks, including a take-home final exam.

If you are taking the Summer 2011 session of this course:

Please send
the following information to
 
before the first day of class 		Full name
Student ID
Full Email address
Daytime phone number  
Please make sure you set up your eID before class begins
See the updated syllabus (25 April 2011)

The RamCT portion of the course opens Monday 16 May 2011.
The course finishes up on Friday 5 August 2011.

The main part of the course is within RamCT: CS 551 DL.

You must have a CSU electronic ID (eID) in order to access the RamCT pages.

You must also be formally registered in the course.

Go here for further instructions on accessing RamCT.

Caution: Make sure to logout of RamCT when finished with a RamCT session.
Otherwise, the next person to sit at that machine may be able to access your RamCT account.