The course covers the basics of Memory Systems, File Systems, Multithreaded Programming, and Networking. Together these form a strong foundation from which the student can understand cutting edge research in the areas of Virtualization, Distributed Systems, and Internet-scale services in the GT Advanced Operating Systems sequence.Why Take This Course?Highlights of the course include a deep coverage of:cache systems and strategieshow virtual memory is implementedthe FAT and ext2 file systemsthe pthreads interfacethe network protocol stack and the architecture of the Internet.