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Hardware and software overview
- NonStop S-series server hardware architecture components
- Address space definitions
- Instruction and data-access mechanisms
- Process components
- Interrupt processing
- NonStop S-series ServerNet interprocessor hardware
- NonStop S-series ServerNet I/O hardware
- NonStop Kernel operating system fundamentals
- NonStop Kernel, Guardian, and OSS process definitions
GARTH for NonStop Kernel architecture
- Introduction to the tool used during the labs
Process execution environment
- Stack architecture for the execution of TNS, accelerated TNS, and TNS/R code blocks on TNS/R systems
- Transfer of control mechanisms for TNS, accelerated
TNS, and TNS/R code blocks on TNS/R systems
- Rules and transition mechanisms between code blocks of different types on TNS/R systems
- Execution modes possible for TNS versus TNS/R processes on TNS/R systems
- How to use and build DLLs and their implementation
- Position-independent Code (PIC)
- Contents of TNS, accelerated TNS, and TNS/R object files
Addressing
- Addressing terminology
- Addressing layout for code and data definitions
- Address translation tables
Interrupts and exceptions
- Interrupt generation
- Level 1 (exception millicode) interrupt processing
- Interrupt masking
- Level 2 software interrupt processing-transition from level 1, data requirements, and exiting
- Interrupt nesting and pending interrupt processing
Operating system tools and mechanisms
- Operating system tools, such as linked list, tables, and pools
- Resource contention controls, such as semaphores and mutual exclusion
- Process event management mechanisms WAIT and AWAKE
Memory access and management
- Virtual-to-physical address translation
- Physical address caching, context bound addresses, the physical frame selection algorithm, and memory manager functions
Message system
- Fundamental NonStop Kernel message system components of the linker-listener model
- Steps of interprocess message transfers between processes in the same processor
- Steps of interprocess message transfers between processes in different processors
- Message system structures involved in intraprocessor and interprocessor messages
- Interprocess communication across nodes including Expand and ServerNet Clusters
Guardian process life cycle and management
- Creation and deletion cycle of a process for a Guardian process
- Process timing and how process execution time is calculated so that interrupt time is not charged to a process
Open System Services (OSS) process life cycle
- Creation and deletion cycle of a process for an OSS process
Guardian file systems
- Guardian file system
- Interactions involved with opens, closes, and other selected subjects such as nowaited I/O and synchronization depth (synchdepth)
OSS file system
- OSS file system differences from the Guardian file system
- How a file is open(), what device types are supported, and file naming
Onsite-delivery equipment requirements
- One NonStop S-series server with Gxx version of the NonStop Kernel operating system to run labs (NonStop S7000 or above)
- Four processors (two minimum)
- One PC compatible workstation per student and one for the instructor with:
- Intel Pentium processor (minimum)
- 16 to 64 MB of memory (including 640 KB of conventional memory)
- VGA monitor
- 11.5 MB maximum disk space
- Windows operating system operating system
- PowerPoint
- One 6530 or PC terminal per student (similar to above configuration)
- A NonStop S-series server is strongly recommended to run the lab exercises. An absolute minimal system would be a NonStop K2000 server with the D40 version or higher NonStop Kernel operating system; however, this configuration will require more time to run the labs
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