Module 1: Course Overview

Module 2: Hardware and Software Overview

• HPE Nonstop Compute multi-core architecture (NSMA) hardware
• HPE Nonstop Compute x86-64 architecture (NXMA) hardware
• Modular I/O
• CLIM hardware
• Code generation, address space, code space, and process execution
• Interprocessor and I/O architecture
• Message-based operating system software layers

Module 3: Debuggers

• J- and L-series debuggers
• Debugger selection
• eInspect and xInspect
• HPE Nonstop debugging environment for Eclipse (NSDEE)
• TNS visual debugger (TNSVDBG) and Inspect

Module 4: Process Runtime Architecture

• TNS/E and TNS/X processes
• Building TNS/E and TNS/X programs and libraries
• TNS processes
• Legacy TNS processes
• Interpreted TNS on Itanium and x86-64
• TNS accelerated on Itanium and x86-64
• TNS transitions
• TNS calling native procedures
• TNS application migration and debugging

Module 5: Addressing

Module 6: Interrupts and Exceptions

• Interrupts
• Synchronization and coordination mechanisms
• Interrupt and auxiliary processes

Module 7: Operating System Tools and Mechanisms

• Data structure
• Time services
• Process contention controls
• PROCESS_WAIT and PROCESS_AWAKE
• Classic privileged semaphores

Module 8: Memory Access and Management

• Hardware
• Physical layer sogical segments sogical map sharing
• Priv considerations
• Page faults

Module 9: The Message System

• Interprocess communication within the same node
• ServerNet and InfiniBand topology and the message system
• MQCs
• Communication across nodes
• Expand
• ServerNet and InfiniBand clusters
• QIO

Module 10: Process Life Cycle and Management

• Guardian process creation
• Process states
• Process synchronization, monitor process operation, processor load, and reload

Module 11: OSS Process Life Cycle

• OSS process creation
• Fork() and exec() process termination

Module 12: Guardian File System

• Functions of the file system control structures
• Open request processing
• Receive depth, Nowait depth, and Sync depth

Module 13: OSS File System

• File systems
• OSS file system and support
• OSS file organization
• OSS pathname mapping
• OSS open

Module 14: I/O

• Storage I/O: architecture, operation, completion for J- and X- series
• CLIM software architecture
• Infiniband based storage system
• Configuring storage device
• Comparing storage and comm I/O
• IP CLIM architecture
• QIO
• Outgoing comm I/O Incoming comm I/O
• IP CWAN I/O
• Other devices