Helps you master the fundamental concepts of operating systems. This text brings you up to speed on core knowledge and skills, including: what operating systems are, what they do, and how they are designed and constructed; process, memory, and storage management; protection and security; distributed systems; and special-purpose systems.

Presents basic programming concepts and techniques. This book focuses on the representation of information inside a computer, the structural relationships between data elements, and how to deal with them efficiently. It gives elementary applications to simulation, numerical methods, symbolic computing, software and system design.

Presents a comprehensive survey of classical computer techniques for sorting and searching. This book considers both large and small databases and internal and external memories. It contains a selection of carefully checked computer methods, with a quantitative analysis of their efficiency, and also a section on optimum sorting.

This title covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Each chapter is relatively self-contained and can be used as a unit of study. The algorithms are described in English and in a pseudocode.

Explains the software including SPEC CPU2000 suite for processors, SPEC Web99 for web servers, and EEMBC for embedded systems. This book features the developments of the Intel IA-32 architecture as well as the Power PC 604, the AMD Opteron Memory, and the Intrinsity FastMATH processor. It compares MIPs assembler code to both C and Java.