Here are well written class notes on Distributed
Operating Systems, at cs.man.ac.uk
explains about distributed operating systems which are used extensively
in parallel computing. The main topics that are covered in these
Distributed Operating Systems notes are: structure of operating
systems, networked and distributed systems, process placement and
interaction. These sessions on distributed operating systems also cover
the following: inter process communication and remote procedure call,
processes and threads, threaded servers and kernels, and resource
management issues. Other topics which are covered
are filesystems, fileserver: transaction based models,
protection regimes, security and authentication, middleware in
distributed systems and distributed objects.
These documents are in pdf format.
Distributed Operating Systems Class Notes:
- Introduction
(13k)
- Operating
System Structure (11k)
- Operating
System Structure 2 (15k)
- Process
placement and IPC (28k)
- Remote
procedure call (18k)
- Resource
management: Deadlocks (20k)
- Resource
management in distributed systems (22k)
- Reliability
in distributed systems (20k)
- Distributed
file systems (24k)
- Distributed
file systems -2 (11k)
- NTFS,
The NT Filing System (12k)
- Modern
Unix File systems (15k)
- Resource
management: Protection and Security (14k)
- CORBA
(22k)
- Microsoft
DCOM & .NET (19k)
- Capabilities
(50k)
- Windows
XP (20k)
- CORBA
(22k)
- Microsoft
DCOM & .NET (18k)
- Remote
Procedure Call (240k)
- RMI
etc. (67k)
- Name
and Directory Servers (518k)
- Time
& Clocks (24k)
- Capabilities (8k)
- Security
(265k)
