Supercomputers and virtual operating systems


<h1>Supercomputers and virtual operating systems</h1>


<b>AIMS</b>:

This course is given in collaboration with IBM Norway.
Itwill be available to a limited number of students and is
designed to fill a specific need for the computing industry:
experience and understanding of supercomputers and virtual operating
systems. Specific attention is given the IBM operating systems zOS
(OS/390) and VM that are widely deployed.
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The course is suitable for students enrolled on the Master's degree
programme, and for students planning to work in banking and large
commerce organizations. The course will have a strong practical flavour,
building on notions from Operating Systems and Unix, and will pay special
attention to comparing and contrasting the differences in architecture between
common operating systems on PC hardware and IBM eServer zSeries computing. This should
offer a different and deeper perspective on computing in a world that is dominated
by disposable Intel hardware. 
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<b>LITERATURE</b>:
Fundamental System Skills in z/OS and OS/390 (IBM Course Code ES10)<br>
z/OS and OS/390 Facilities (IBM Course Code ES15)
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<b>Curriculum</b>:

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<li>Architectures and design principles of the z-series.
<li>Initialization of the operating systems.
<li>Virtual and real addressing.
<li>The task (process) model.
<li>Dispatching, interrupt processing, supervisor calls, cross memory services and serialization.
<li>The Jop Entry Subsystem.
<li>I/O request processsing.
<li>Workload management.
<li>Storage management in z/OS and OS/390.
<li>Unix system services in z/OS and OS/390.
<li>An overview of "SNA" - the System Network Architecture and its relation to TCP/IP.
<li>Security features and management.
<li>Cluster computing.
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<b>EVALUATION</b>: Oral examination.