Operating Systems:Schedule

CS 444/CS544

Spring 2012

MW 2-3, Science Center 356

Warning: This schedule is tentative will change as the semester progresses!

Date Topic Resources Reading Notes/Assignments
Week 1
Fri
1/13
LAB: Welcome and System Monitoring Lab Note: Lab on Fridays meets in the ITL lab (SC 334) rather than regular lecture room!
System Monitoring Homework
Week 2
Mon
1/16
What is an operating system? OS History Links SGG 1
Wed
1/18
OS History SGG 2
Fri
1/20
LAB: C Primer/Intro to the Shell Assignment and Parser Shell Assignment
Week 3
Mon
1/23
Processes SGG 4 System Monitoring Homework due in class
Wed
1/25
Visitor
Fri
1/27
Processes and System Calls
Week 4
Mon
1/30
Threads Pthreads
Pthreads tutorial
Scheduler Activations
Why Threads Are a Bad Idea
SGG 5
Wed
2/1
CPU Scheduling SGG 6,7
Fri
2/3
LAB: Thread Programming and Intro to locking granularity
Week 5
Mon
2/6
Synchronization SGG 7
Wed
2/8
Synchronization SGG 7 Locking Homework
Fri
2/10
LAB: Real-time scheduler Shell Homework due
Week 6
Mon
2/13
Classic Synchronization Problems (Producer/Consumer) SGG 7, 8
Weds
2/15
Classic Synchronization Problems (Readers/Writers)
Fri
2/17
February break
Week 7
Mon
2/20
Memory Management
Wed
2/22
Memory Management, Review for midterm
Fri
2/24
LAB: Producer/consumer; Windows Threads Locking Homework due
Week 8
Mon
2/27
Storage Hierarchy Tom's Hardware Storage Guide
Cnet's RAM Buying Guide
PC Mechanic Memory
SGG 14.1-14.3.1, 11
Wed
2/29
Storage Hierarchy Tom's Hardware Storage Guide
Cnet's RAM Buying Guide
PC Mechanic Memory
SGG 14.1-14.3.1, 11
Fri
3/2
LAB: VFS layer
Week 9
Mon
3/5
Midterm in class
Wed
3/7
Disks and Disk Scheduling
File Systems Basics
SGG 11,12
Fri
3/9
LAB : Add a system call to the Linux kernel
Week 10
Mon
3/12
FFS and LFS A fast file system for UNIX
Design and Implementation of log-structured file system
SGG 12
Weds
3/14
FFS, LFS, Other FS and the Vnode Interface
Fri
3/16
LAB: Intro to the user-level FS User-level File System
Week 11 SPRING BREAK
Week 12
Mon
3/26
Networks SGG 9
Weds
3/28
Networks SGG 15
Fri
3/30
LAB: Paging simulator
Week 13
Mon
4/2
Protection and Security
Weds
4/4
Protection and Security User level file system assignment due
Fri
4/4
LAB: Linux module
Week 14
Mon
4/9
Parallel and Distributed Systems
Wed
4/11
Distributed Systems Byzantine Generals Problem
Fri
4/13
LAB : In-lab Paper Exam
Week 15
Mon
4/16
Distributed Systems
Weds
4/18
Distributed Systems
Fri
4/20
LAB: Make your own vmap
Week 16
Mon
4/23
Revolution OS
Weds
4/25
Review
Fri
4/27
LAB
Week 17 Finals
TBA
FINAL TBA

Legend: SGG = Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne

Acknowledgements: Many of these slides are an amalgam of slides from Steve Gribble, Gun Sirer and the slides that accompany the Silberschatz text.