Required readings
Required readings (pensum) for the spring 2008 exam:
- All material covered on the lectures and exercise lectures.
- All exercises
- Book: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (4. edition), J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross, ISBN 0-321-49770-8.
- Chap. 1-7
- Chap 8 are cursory
- Book: Modern Operating Systems, A. S. Tanenbaum, ISBN 0-13-031358-0
(Copies of chapter 8 handed out)
- Chap 8.
- 8.1 Multiprocessors: Cursory
- 8.2 Multicomputers: Cursory except 8.2.4, 8.2.5.
- 8.2.4 Remote Procedure Call: Pensum
- 8.2.5 Distributed Shared Memory: Pensum
Cursory: Detailed knowledge not required, but questions from these chapters may still be given on the exam.
