| Date | Topic | Reading | ';
$oldfirstday = $firstday;
while($numlecs > 0) {
print date("D M d", $firstday) . ' '; if(date("D", $firstday) == "Tue") { $firstday += 60 * 60 * 24 * 2; } else if(date("D", $firstday) == "Thu") { $firstday += 60 * 60 * 24 * 5.01; } $numlecs -= 1; } print ' | ';
if($link != '') {
if(time() > $oldfirstday) {
$linkstr = '' . $topic . ' (PDF)';
} else {
$linkstr = '' . $topic . '';
}
} else {
$linkstr = '' . $topic . '';
}
if($description != '') {
$linkstr = $linkstr . ': ' . $description;
}
print '' . $linkstr . ' | ' . $reading . ' | '; } lecture('Introduction', 'slides/01-intro.ppt', 'Introduces the course and its contents; Discusses the history of OSs.'); lecture('Architectural Support for Operating Systems', 'slides/02-arch-support.ppt', 'Interrupts and Traps; I/O and device drivers; OS Protection; OS Structure; Booting.', 'Ch. 1 & 2', 2); lecture('Processes and Threads', 'slides/03-processes-threads.ppt', 'What is a process? What is a thread? How are they created and destroyed? How are processes and threads implemented?', 'Ch. 3 & 4', 2); lecture('CPU Scheduling', 'slides/04-scheduling.ppt', 'How does the OS decide which user processes/threads to schedule?', 'Ch. 5', 1); lecture('Synchronization', 'slides/05-synchronization.ppt', 'How do threads share the same memory without stepping on each others toes? How do threads coordinate their execution? Locks, spinlocks, semaphores, monitors and condition variables.', 'Ch. 6', 4); lecture('Deadlocks', 'slides/06-deadlocks.pptx', 'How to prevent synchronized threads from mutually blocking each other.', 'Ch. 7', 2); lecture('Memory Management', 'slides/07-main-memory.pptx', 'Memory organization. Paging. Segmentation. Page Tables. TLB Management.', 'Ch. 8'); lecture('Fall Break', '', '', ''); lecture('Virtual Memory', 'slides/08-vm.pptx', '', 'Ch. 9', 3); lecture('Networking', 'slides/09-networking.pptx', 'Network organization. Ethernet. ARP. DHCP. DNS. IP. TCP. BGP. Routing overview.', '
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