CPS 210 (Duke University) Operating Systems

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Important dates for Spring 2013:

Jan 21: Initial writeup on heap manager lab #1
Jan 28: Heap manager individual submission
Feb 6: Initial group writeup on shell lab #2
Feb 13: UNC game at Duke
Feb 15: Shell lab #2 submission
Feb 18: Midterm exam in recitation
Feb 22: Midsemester grade reporting
Feb 24: Boston College at Duke
March 2: Miami game at Duke
March 5: Virginia Tech game at Duke
March 8: Spring Break and March Madness begin AFTER class ends at 4:20
March 18: Return from Spring Break and March Madness: recitation
March 25: Lab #3 group submission: Elevator
March 27: Last day to withdraw with W
April 1: Lab #4 initial group writeup: Devil Filer
April 5: Midterm exam in class
April 24: Lab #4 group submission: Devil Filer, last day of classes
May 2: CPS 210 final exam, 7PM-10PM, Thursday
May 4: Last day of exams, semester grades due

Date	Topic/Event	slides
Jan 11	Course introduction	[PPTX]
Jan 14	Recitation: Programming C and Heap Manager	[TXT]
Jan 16	Programs and Processes	[PPTX]
Jan 18	More on Programs and Processes	[PPTX]
Jan 21	Recitation: No Recitation (MLK day)	[Some hints for heap manager]
Jan 23	Threads and Context	[PPTX]
Jan 25	Class cancelled due to severe weather	[]
Jan 28	Recitation: Review of heap manager and intro to shell	[PDF]
Jan 30	The Kernel and the Unix Process API	[PPTX]
Feb 1	Unix: Process I/O and IPC	[PPTX]
Feb 4	Recitation: The Devil Shell	[PDF]
Feb 6	Protection	[PPTX]
Feb 8	Networking, the Web, and servers	[PPTX]
Feb 11	Recitation: The Devil Shell Continued	[PDF]
Feb 13	Threads, events, mutexes, condition variables	[PPTX]
Feb 15	Synchronization	[PPTX]
Feb 18	Midterm Exam in recitation
Feb 20	Synchronization Continued	[PPTX]
Feb 22	Synchronization Continued	[PPTX]
Feb 25	Recitation: Concurrency and Synchronization Workshop: Part I	[PDF]
Feb 27	Synchronization Continued	[PPTX]
Mar 1	Synchronization Continued	[PPTX]
Mar 4	Recitation: Concurrency and Synchronization Workshop: Part II	[PDF, Practice Problems]
Mar 6	Threats	[PPTX]
Mar 8	Threats (Continued)	[PPTX from 3/6]
Mar 11	Spring Break
Mar 13	Spring Break
Mar 15	Spring Break
Mar 18	Recitation: Elevator Synchronization and Scheduling	[PDF]
Mar 20	Guest Lecture: Landon Cox	[no slides]
Mar 22	Storage and File Systems	[PPTX]
Mar 25	Recitation: Asynchronous programming and Crypto	[PDF]
Mar 27	Storage and File Systems Continued	[PPTX from 3/22]
Mar 29	File Systems Continued	[PPTX from 3/22]
Apr 3	File Systems Part 2	[PPTX]
Apr 5	File Systems Part 2 Continued	[PPTX from 4/3]
Apr 10	File Systems Part 2 Continued	[PPTX from 4/3]
Apr 12	Service Scale and Performance	[PPTX]
Apr 15	Recitation: Log Structured File System	[PDF]
Apr 17	Android: a Quick Peek	[PPTX]
Apr 19	Clouds and scaling	[PPTX]
Apr 22	Recitation: A retrospective	[PDF]
Apr 24	Cloud storage and key-value stores	[PPTX]
May 2	Final exam: Thursday 5/2 from 7-10 PM	[]