Distributed Systems – Latency Limits (Notes)
Introduction Summary Lamport’s theories provided deterministic execution for non determinism exists due to vagaries of the network. Will discuss technique...
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Lamport’s Clocks (notes)
Introduction Summary Now that we talked about happened before events, we can talk about lamport clocks Lamport’s Logical Clock Summary A logical clock that each...
Distributed Systems Introduction notes
The main take away with the introduction to distributed systems lectures is that as system designers, we need to carefully inspect our program and identify what...
OpenMP tutorial notes (Part 1)
I’m watching the YouTube learning series called “Introduction to OpenMP” in order to get a better understanding of how I can use the framework...
My Anki settings for cramming for an exam
I spent a few minutes fiddling with my Anki settings yesterday, modifying the options for the advanced operating systems deck that I had created to help me prep...
Shared memory multiprocessing (notes for advanced operating systems)
OS for parallel machines Summary There are many challenges that the OS faces when building for parallel machines: size bloat (features OS just has to run), memo...
Midterm preparation (part 3/3) – Virtualization to Test-And-Set
Question 3d The algorithm is implemented on a cache coherent architecture with an invalidation-based shared-memory bus. The circular queue is implemented...
Midterm preparation (part 2/3) – Virtualization to Test-And-Set
This is a continuation of me attempting to answer the midterm questions without peeking at the answers. Part 1 covered questions from OS Structures and this pos...
Midterm preparation – Questions and my guesses for OS Structures section
As mentioned in my recent post on taking a multi pass approach for midterm preparation, I’m taking a stab at answering the midterm questions myself and be...
Advanced Operating Systems (AOS) notes
If you are an online masters of computer science student (OMSCS) at Georgia Tech and enrolled in advanced operating systems (AOS) course, you might want to chec...