Framework for Distributed Simulation and Measuring of Complex Relations of Operating System Components
Volker Fickert, Winfried Kalfa, Thomas Weise · EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology · 2005
Collecting experience with the help of experiments makes it much easier to understand complex relations. But with modern computing systems it is hardly possible to get a direct insight into internal processes. A current project for the simulation and realization of measuring of processes in operating systems is presented in my lecture. Its main point is the visualization of such processes. Because of that distributed applications which simulate different components of an operating system or which, with the help of appropriate drivers, are able to carry out measurements on real machines were drawn up with JAVA. During the simulation and measurements learners can influence parameters of different components and experience their effects directly. Thus in teaching operating systems it will be possible to illustrate processes which are difficult to understand and to influence complex relations immediately.