COMP SCI/SFWR ENG 3SH3: Operating Systems

Winter 2014

Instructors: Rong Zheng

Email: rzheng

Lectures: Tue, Wed, Fri 9:30 - 10:20am, CNH/B107

Office Hours: Wed. 3:30 - 5:30pm (or by appointment)

Class avenue page: Now up and running.

TAs and TA office hrs:

Ala Shaabana (shaabaa@), Thu 1 -3pm, ITB 223 (Note change in room #)
Zhaowei Tian (tianz3@), Thu 9 – 11am, ITB 207
Qiang Xu (xuq22@), Fri 3 – 5pm, ITB 223 (Note change in room #)

Course description:

Processes and threads, synchronization and communication; scheduling; memory management; file systems; resource protection; structure of operating systems.
Prerequisite(s): One of CS 2ME3, SE 2AA4, 3K04, 3M04
Antirequisite(s): CE 4SN4, CS 3SH3, 4SH3, SFWR ENG 3BB4

Text book:

A. Silberschatz, G. Gagne, and P.B. Galvin. Operating System Concepts, 9th edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-1-118-06333-0 (8th edition fine)

Course schedule:

Date	Content	Note
Week 1 (6/1-10/1)	Introduction (Lecture 1) Readings: Chapter 1, Chapter 2.1 - 2.7	Group signup
Week 2 (13/1 - 17/1)	Process and thread Readings: Chapter 3 - 4
Week 3 (21/1 - 24/1)	Process and thread Readings: Chapter 3 - 4
Week 4 (28/1 - 31/1)	Synchronization Readings: Chapter 5	Project 1 starts
Week 5 (3/2 - 7/2)	Synchronization Readings: Chapter 5
Week 6 (9/2 - 13/2)	CPU scheduling Readings: Chapter 6
Week 7 (17/2 - 21/2)	Reading week
Week 8 (24/2 - 28/2)	Memory management Readings: Chapter 8 - 9	Midterm, project 2 starts
Week 9 (3/3 - 7/3)	Memory management Readings: Chapter 8 - 9
Week 10 (10/3 - 14/3)	File systems Readings: Chapter 10 - 11
Week 11 (17/3 - 21/3)	Networking and distributed systems Readings: Chapter 16	Project 3 starts
Week 12 (24/3 - 28/3)	Networking and distributed systems Readings: Chapter 16
Week 13 (31/3 - 4/4)	Advanced topics
Week 14 (7/4 - 11/4)	Review

Grading

Nachos programming assignments (3 total) 45%, Midterm 20%, Pop-quiz 10%, Final 25%

Nachos programming assignments and related materials

See here.

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Please note we use well-tested software such as MOSS to detect software plagiarism.