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Operating system s represent the software foundation that enables applications to make use of the hardware resources of the computer in an efficient way. In this chapter we introduce the main roles of an operating system and will discuss in detail the two features most relevant from programming perspective: scheduling of threads for execution on available processor cores and resource management, primarily virtual and physical memory management in a multi-core context. We illustrate these concepts through the three dominant operating systems in use today: Linux , Solaris and Windows, with particular emphasis on thread and memory handling.
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Vajda, A. (2011). State of the Art Multi-Core Operating Systems. In: Programming Many-Core Chips. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9739-5_3
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