• To provide advanced understanding of memory management in modern computer
systems.
• To develop skills in optimizing memory usage and performance.
• To analyze advanced memory allocation and virtual memory techniques.
• To understand memory-related issues in multitasking and multi-threaded environments.
• To introduce modern trends in memory architecture and management.

After completing the course, learners will be able to:
1. Explain advanced concepts of memory management in operating systems.
2. Analyze and implement efficient memory allocation strategies.
3. Evaluate virtual memory systems and page replacement algorithms.
4. Diagnose memory-related performance issues and optimize system performance.
5. Understand concurrency issues related to memory usage.
6. Apply modern memory management techniques in real-world scenarios.

Module 1: Advanced Memory Architecture

• Memory hierarchy optimization
• Cache memory design and performance
• Main memory organization
• Memory access techniques

Module 2: Advanced Memory Allocation

• Dynamic memory allocation strategies
• Heap management techniques
• Garbage collection (mark-sweep, reference counting)
• Memory leaks and prevention

Module 3: Virtual Memory & Optimization

• Advanced virtual memory concepts
• Demand paging and pre-paging
• Page replacement algorithms (FIFO, LRU, LFU, Optimal)
• Thrashing and working set model

Module 4: Concurrency & Memory Management

• Memory management in multi-threaded systems
• Synchronization issues (deadlocks, race conditions)
• Shared memory systems
• Memory consistency models

Module 5: Modern Memory Technologies & Performance

• Solid State Drives (SSD) and memory integration
• NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)
• Memory virtualization
• Performance tuning and benchmarking
• Memory management in modern OS (Linux, Windows)

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