Computer Science 262A

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Title	Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Units	4
Prerequisites	162 and entrance exam.
Description	Graduate survey of systems for managing computation and information, covering a breadth of topics: early systems; volatile memory management, including virtual memory and buffer management; persistent memory systems, including both file systems and transactional storage managers; storage metadata, physical vs. logical naming, schemas, process scheduling, threading and concurrency control; system support for networking, including remote procedure calls, transactional RPC, TCP, and active messages; security infrastructure; extensible systems and APIs; performance analysis and engineering of large software systems. Homework assignments, exam, and term paper or project required.

Sections Instructor Teaching Effectiveness How worthwhile was this course?

Fall 2006 Hellerstein 6.1 / 7 ± 0.4
5.8 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 2005 Hellerstein (1/2) 5.9 / 7 ± 0.5
6.1 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 2005 Roscoe (2/2) 5.6 / 7 ± 0.5
5.9 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 2004 Brewer (1/2) 6.3 / 7 ± 0.3
6.4 / 7 ± 0.2

Fall 2004 Franklin (2/2) 5.4 / 7 ± 0.5
6.1 / 7 ± 0.4

Fall 2003 Brewer 6.6 / 7 ± 0.2
6.5 / 7 ± 0.2

Fall 2002 Brewer 6.4 / 7 ± 0.3
6.0 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 2001 Hellerstein (1/2) 5.7 / 7 ± 0.4
5.3 / 7 ± 0.4

Fall 2001 Joseph (2/2) 4.9 / 7 ± 0.5
5.2 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 2000 Brewer (1/2) 5.7 / 7 ± 0.5
5.9 / 7 ± 0.4

Fall 2000 Hellerstein (2/2) 6.0 / 7 ± 0.5
5.9 / 7 ± 0.5

Overall Rating Teaching Effectiveness How worthwhile was this course?

Computer Science 262A 5.9 / 7 ± 0.0
5.9 / 7 ± 0.0

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