| The research group KBS (Communication and Operating
Systems) deals with problems that are traditionally associated with
operating systems but have now to be seen in the larger context of
internet-based systems. The long-term goal is to build a reliable
and scalable infrastructure for distributed applications that transparently
provides solutions to the problems of distribution, heterogeneity,
efficiency, and security. To put it more pithily with current buzzwords:
We are working towards a self-organizing Grid operating system.
In teaching we are involved in basic undergraduate education and
offer advanced courses to operating systems, distributed systems,
middleware, cluster- and grid-computing, dependability, security
and performance evaluation. We emphasize on conveying fundamental
concepts, methods and algorithms that are essential prerequisites
for developing complex distributed systems.
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In research our umbrella topic is resource management in a wide
sense. We address the question who may access or use what, how,
how long and to what extent. This includes particular topics like
scheduling, partitioning, placement, access control, or accounting.
The spectrum of domains we consider ranges from parallel computing
over internet-based services down to mobile and embedded devices.
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