Unit Five Objectives CSCI524 Distributed Operating System Design

Distributed Operating Systems - Chapter 4
 1)Describe the data structures and context switching mechanism
   of an operating system.
 2)Define "thread" and explain how this modifies the context switch
   algorithm.
 3)Compare the performance of threads versus context switching.
 4)Contrast a language implementation (JAVA threads) versus the OS
   algorithm.
 5)Define dynamic link object modules and compare them to threads.
 6)Explain T's file server justification.  Explain what he means
   when he says: "Blocking system calls make programming easier
   and parallelism improves performance."
 7)Justify threads from a programming perspective (globals, sequential
   operations, nesting levels, etc.).
 8)Contrast "team" versus "pipeline" thread models.