August 14, 2013

Operating System Concepts By Abraham Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne PDF

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Operating systems have become an integral part of computing today, and professionals working in this field will need all the help that they can get to learn about the intricacies involved in designing and maintaining them...

Operating System Concepts provides a good and deep coverage of operating system concepts, practices and trends...
 
As in the past, the text brings you up to speed on core knowledge and skills, including What operating systems are, what they do, and how they are designed and constructed...

Process, memory, and storage management; Protection and security, Distributed systems, Special–purpose systems; Beyond the basics...

The Eight Edition sports substantive revisions and organizational changes that clue you in to such cutting–edge developments as open–source operating systems, multi–core processors, clustered computers, virtual machines, transactional memory, NUMA, Solaris 10 memory management, Sun’s ZFS file system, and many more...

Each chapter ends with a concise summary of the topics covered, and practice exercises. In addition, every chapter ends with bibliographical notes regarding references used, which could provide additional study material for students...

New to this edition is the use of a simulator to dynamically demonstrate several operating system topics. Best of all, a greatly enhanced WileyPlus, a multitude of new problems and programming exercises, and other enhancements to this edition all work together to prepare you enter the world of operating systems with confidence...

About the Authors:

Abraham Silberschatz  is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin...
Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He received  the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award. In recognition of his outstanding level of innovation and technical  excellence, he was awarded the Bell Laboratories President's Award for three  different projects-the QTM Project [1998], the DataBlitz Project [1999], and  the Netlnventory Project [2004]...

Professor Silberschatz' writings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE publications and other professional conferences and journals. He is a coauthor of the textbook Database System Concepts. He has also written Op-Ed  articles for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Hartford Courant,  among others...

Peter Baer Galvin is  the  chief technologist  for  Corporate Technologies www.cptech.com, a computer facility reseller and integrator. Before that, Mr.  Galvin was the systems manager for Brown University's Computer Science  Department. He is also Sun columnist for ;login: magazine. Mr. Galvin has  written articles for Byte and other magazines, and has written columns for  Sun World and SysAdmin magazines. As a consultant and trainer, he has given  talks and taught tutorials on security and system administration worldwide...

Greg Gagne is  chair of the Computer Science department at Westminster College in Salt Lake City where he has been teaching since 1990. In addition  to teaching operating systems, he also teaches computer networks, distributed systems, and software engineering. He also provides workshops to computer science educators and industry professionals...

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