CPS 196 Systems and Networks
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This calendar lists the topics discussed on each day. It will grow and change. You are responsible for completing the reading for each topic before we discuss the topic. Slides and reading assignments for each topic are on the topics page.

Date	Topic/Event
Jan 12	Course introduction
Jan 17	Physical machines and privileged mode Reading: Review Patterson and Hennessy 7.4 (from CPS 104), and [SK] chapters 1-2.
Jan 19	Physical machines and privileged mode (virtual memory)
Jan 24	Classical OS structure and the Unix operating system Reading: [Ritchie78], [WIB]
Jan 26	Classical OS structure and the Unix operating system
Jan 31	Virtual machines (Alvin Lebeck) Reading: [SmithNair05], [Intel05]
Feb 2	Virtual machines and Linux on Xen Reading: [Barham03]
Feb 7	Virtual machines and Linux on Xen Reading: [SK] chapter 5 (skip material related to threads)
Feb 9	Networking and the Internet: naming and addressing.
Feb 14	Internet naming and addressing. Lab #1 due (extended to Monday, February 20)
Feb 16	Midterm exam
Feb 21	Sockets and client/server communication. Reading: [SK] section 4A.
Feb 23	Server structure and concurrency. Reading: [SK] section 6A.
Feb 28	Server performance, concurrency, and overload. Introduction to threads. Reading: [SK] section 5A.
Mar 2	Threads and synchronization.
Mar 7	Threads and synchronization.
Mar 9	Kernel synchronization, and synchronization building blocks.
Mar 21	Midterm discussion. CPU scheduling.
Mar 23	Reliable communication: TCP.
Mar 28	TCP performance and congestion.
Mar 30	Congestion control in the Internet.
Apr 4	Secure communication.
Apr 6	Security, end-to-end principle.
Apr 11	File systems and NFS.
Apr 13	File systems and NFS: consistency.
Apr 18	Distributed consensus and failures.
Apr 20	Large-scale network services.
Apr 25	Large-scale network services.
May XXX	Final exam