CS 4410 Operating Systems Summer 2010

Introduction to the logical design of systems programs, with emphasis on multiprogrammed operating systems. Topics include process synchronization, deadlock, memory management, input-output methods, information sharing, protection and security, and file systems. The impact of network and distributed computing environments on operating systems is also discussed.

Instructor

Robert Burgess

<burgess at systems.cs.cornell.edu>

Lecture

Upson 207

8:30am–9:45am

Mondays–Fridays

May 24–July 2, 2010

Office Hours

Upson 328

10am–11am

Fridays

Projects

Bounded Queue, due June 4 at 11:59pm.
Thread, due June 11 at 11:59pm.
Allocation, due June 18 at 11:59pm.
File System, due July 2 at 11:59pm.
Get, due July 4 at 11:59pm (extra credit).

Lectures

May	24	No class (there will be a makeup)
	25	Introduction
	26	Hardware
	27	OS Structure
	28	Concurrency
	31	Synchronization
June	1	Monitors
	2	Deadlocks
	3	CPU Scheduling
	4	Thread Project

Resources

Course Management System

View and submit assignments through CMS.

Newsgroup

cornell.class.cs4410

CSUG Lab

All students will have CSUG accounts and thus access to the CSUG machines. You might want to review Using Linux in the CS Undergraduate Lab, since we will be working in that environment.

Old Lecture Notes

Spring 2009
Fall 2009

Book

Operating Systems Concepts
by A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin, and G. Gagne
7^th or 8^th edition