Università Roma Tre

Computer Architecture:
- Logical and physical organization:
o CPU architectures compared to CISC and RISC
o RISC architecture in detail (parallelism, pipeline, superscalar architecture, registers, operations, buffers and internal cache)
o system bus and bus for peripherals, main memory, disks
- Operating systems:
o kernel types, processes and structure of executables, loading of executables into main memory, virtual and physical addresses, paging, swap
o scheduling algorithms, process priorities, input / output devices and their drivers, interrupt management, communications between processes, signals, timing management
o file system
- Virtual systems and container:
o Virtual machine architecture
o Container architecture

Communication networks:
- Network architectures:
o topologies of local and geographic networks
o routing and communication protocols
o standard TCP / IP, layered structure, organization of packet headers, transport layers, network and data link in TCP / IP, applications and their protocols
o Notes on the architecture of Fiber-Channel and InfiniBand network

Storage systems:
- physical structuring
- RAID systems

Data intensive processing systems:
- intensive computation, algorithm parallelism, computer farm and job scheduling systems
- new frontiers of scientific computing and GRID.
- Cloud systems

Laboratory activities:
- Linux operating system
- Shared file systems
- MPI libraries for running parallel programs
- Scheduling systems
- Testing services based on docker container

Testi adottati:
- J. F. Kurose, K. W. Ross , Reti di calcolatori e internet. Un approccio top-down
- A. S. Tanenbaum, H. Bos, B. Crispo, C. Palazzi, I moderni sistemi operativi
- A. S. Tanenbaum, T.Austin, Architettura dei calcolatori. Un approccio strutturale