CSI500/400 Spring 2010 Class Home Page

CSI500/400 Operating Systems Spring 2010 Syllabus

Course staff and meeting information

What's New:

Prof. Margo Seltzer's Graduate Course in OS at Harvard University: Slides, syllabus, assignments, questions, etc. are an excellent resource for this course. Her course uses our textbook by Tanenbaum, but has much more intensive project work.

ASourceFile.s used for the slides explaining assembly language. Do NOT redo work you've done with the output of other compilers! Analyzing any recent, non-optimizing compiler's output is fine for our purposes.

Resources: Links to Course Materials

Course Listserv Archives and Access

• Lecture 1 (W 1/20)
  1. Syllabus
  2. Homework 1 Reading and Survey Writing Part (due 1/22)
  3. Homework 1 Programming Part (due 1/22)
• Lecture 2 (F 1/22)
• Lecture 3 (M 1/25)
• Lab 1 (1/26 and 1/28)
• Lecture 4 (W 1/27)
• Lecture 5 (F 1/29) including HW for Monday and Friday
• Lecture 6 (M 2/1)
• Lecture 7 (W 2/3)
• Lecture 8-9-10 (F,M,W 2/5,8,10)
• Lecture 11 (F 2/12)
• 4 day weekend break--No Lab Tues.
• Lecture 12 (W 2/17)
• Lecture 13 (F 2/19)
• Lecture 14 (M 2/22)
• Lab on VM (Page Faulting) Instrumentation
• Lecture 15 (W 2/24)
• Lecture 16 Guest Lecture and Discussion with Richard Stallman (F 2/26)
• Lecture 17 (M 3/1)
• Lab on Treasure Hunting in the Linux Kernel Code: Initializations
• Lecture 18 (W 3/3)
• Lecture 19 (F 3/5)
• Lecture 20 (M 3/8)

  (Review some mem. mgt. problems.)

• Lecture 21 (W 3/10) Midterm Exam
• Lecture 22 (F 3/12) Course Evaluation, Guest Lecture by Prof. J.-H. Hwang
• Lecture 23 (M 3/15 The Ides of March)

  (Working set, working set and WS-clock, Team question: What are the differences between a file and memory used to store data, and rank them in importance.)

• Modules and Simple File-interface Device Driver Lab
• Lecture 24 (W 3/17)
• Modules and Simple File-interface Device Driver Lab Simplified Further
• Lecture 25(24) (F 3/19)
• Lecture 26(24) (M 3/22)
• March 23 Lab Continue Last Weeks
• Lecture 27 (W 3/24)
• Lecture 28 (F 3/26)
• March 29 - April 5 Spring Break
• April 6 and 8 Lab on the proc file system
• Lecture 29-31 (W 4/7, F 4/9, M 4/12)
• Performance Lab (4/13, 4/16)
• Lecture 32 (W 4/14)
• Lecture 33 (F 4/16)
• Atomicity OCW Text Chapter
• Lecture 34 (M 4/19)
• Cruse's lesson 18 on jiffies, wait queues, timers and work queues, Lab (4/20, 4/22)
• Activity Lecture 35 (W 4/21)
• Lecture 36 (F 4/23)

  Readings: Saltzer and Kaashoek on Design Principles
  Saltzer and Kaashoek Principles of Computer System Design, Part II, Chapter 9 on Atomicity

• Lecture 37 (M 4/26)
• Lecture 38 (W 4/28)
• Lecture 39 (F 4/30)
• Lecture 40 (M 5/3)
• Final Exam Tuesday, May 11, 10:30AM-12:30PM