CPS 210
Operating Systems
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| January 10 | Course introduction |
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| January 15 | Threads and concurrency. Reading: Tc2-3. |
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| January 17 | Synchronization toolbox. Reading: [Birrell89]. |
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| January 22 | Starvation and deadlock, implementing synchronization, data race detection with Eraser. Reading: [Savage97]. Also, read through the lab guide and be sure you understand what is required for the synchronization modules of lab #1. | |
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| January 24 | OS kernels, processes, and protection. Reading: Tc1, 5.1-5.3, 5.5, 9.6, 10.2.5-10.3.3, 11.3, and read through the lab guide to be sure you understand what is required for the OS kernel module of lab #1. | |
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| January 29 | Concurrency hour exam, problem set #1 is due, class: Justin Moore on Nachos. Complete the synchronization elements of lab #1 before the hour exam. | |||
| January 31 | Justin Moore: Nachos, Pipes, Signals, IPC. Reading: Tc10.1-10.6.3, 10.7-10.8. | |||
| February 5 | Nachos lab #1 is due, class: virtual memory. Reading: Tc4.1-4.3, 6.1-6.2, 6.3.7. | |
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| February 7 | Processes and Unix I/O model, and more virtual memory. Reading: Tc4.4-4.9, [Daley68], [Richie74]. | |
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| February 12 | Catch-up day for Multics and virtual memory. | |
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| February 14 | Server structure and events. Reading: SEDA [Welsh01]. | |
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| February 19 | OS structure: microkernels, extensible kernels, exokernels. Reading: [Engler95] sections 1-4, [Engler97] sections 1-3 and sections 7-10, [Bershad95] sections 1-4. | |
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| February 21 | Nachos lab #2 is due, class: resource management and scheduling. Reading: Tc4.4-4.9, [Jones97]. | |
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| February 26 | Resource management, streaming I/O, prefetching | |
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| February 28 | File systems and NFS. Reading: Tc6.3.1-6.3.7 | |
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| March 5 | RAID and network storage. Reading: Tc5.4 (focus on RAID material), 6.3.8, 10.6.3, 10.6.4, [Hitz94]. | |
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| March 7 | Mirroring for disaster recovery. Reading: [Patterson02]. Slides are same as March 5. | |
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| March 19 | Carla Ellis: energy-aware operating systems (Milly Watt). Reading: Tc5.9. [Flinn99], [Zeng01] | |||
| March 21 | Darrell Anderson on file system benchmarking | |||
| March 26 | Low-overhead network communication | |||
| March 28 | Metrics. Readings: [Brown00] and [Mogul00]. | |||
| April 2 | Midterm exam on material through March 7. | |||
| April 4 | OS robustness and evolution. Reading: [Chou01], [Gribble01]. | |||
| April 9 | Virtual machines. Reading: [Bugnion97], [Chen01]. | |||
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