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1.) Overview of Computer Systems and Linux Crash Course
2.) The C Programming Language: Building Blocks and Data Structures
3.) Memory, Virtual Memory, and C-Strings (5009-Debugging)
4.) A peek into Assembly and CPU Architecture (And more debugging)
5.) Writing Bigger Software - Compilers, Linkers, and Code Generation
6.) Processes and the Memory Hierarchy
7.) Concurrency
8.) Algorithms Foundations: Sorting - Selection, Insertion, Bubble
9.) Spring Break
10.) Primer on Proofs
11.) nLogn Sorts and How We Prove It
12.) Trees, Heaps, and Heapsort
13.) Introduction to Graphs
14.) Greedy Algorithms and Dynamic Programming
15.) Final Review and Course Wrap up
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Module 6 - Processes and the Memory Hierarchy

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Module Overview

In this module we learn about how multiple processes can run on a single CPU. We also learn about the memory hierarchy. We then learn about the fork system command to duplicate processes..

Module Outline

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    • CPU - Fetch Decode Execute
    • Pipelining
    • Memory Hierachy
    • Locality
    • Caching
    • Processes
    • Heaps

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    • This is graded, and only your first response is graded
    • This is an evaluation of what was learned in lecture.
    • Due one week from when the lecture takes place
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