CS4411: Practicum in Operating Systems

Overview.: The practical aspects of operating systems are studied through a semester-long project that exercises coding, debugging, and profiling skills, and knowledge of threads, synchronization, system interfaces, and performance. All the programming for the project is in a high-level language.
Teaching Assistant.: Robert Burgess
burgess@systems.cs.cornell.edu
Meetings.: Tuesday 3:35pm–4:25pm
B14 Hollister
Office Hours.: Tuesday and Thursday 1:30pm–3:30pm
331 Upson

Announcements

April 28.: The final assignment has been released. There is extra credit available on this assignment.
March 31.: The due date for the second assignment has been "extended" to allow late submission until April 7. On-time submissions will receive extra credit.
February 10.: The second assignment has been released; get started as soon as possible, because it is a very large project with many sub-components and internal checkpoints.
January 30.: The CSUG lab machine named schroeder.csuglab.cornell.edu is now installed with FUSE, and I have tested that I am able to run the hello-world server. You are now able to proceed with your assignment. If you have any troubles please let me know and I will sort them out.
January 28.: The CSUG accounts have all been set up; lab door, net-print, and other such permissions are hot on the way. Go to http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/userinfo to set your password if you have not already.; This course now has an independent CMS page for submissions. Ensure that you are on it and can see the first assignment.
January 27.: The first assignment has been set—the project will be on the Linux platform using the C programming language.

Programming Assignment 3 assigned April 28, due May 12 by 24:00.
Programming Assignment 2 assigned February 10, due March 31 (extended: April 7) by 24:00. Start early to meet important internal checkpoints!
Programming Assignment 1 assigned January 27, due February 10 by 15:35.