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Course Schedule

'; if($link != '') { if(time() > $oldfirstday) { $linkstr = '' . $topic . ' (PDF)'; } else { $linkstr = '' . $topic . ''; } } else { $linkstr = '' . $topic . ''; } if($description != '') { $linkstr = $linkstr . ': ' . $description; } print ''; } lecture('Introduction', 'slides/01-intro.pptx', 'Introduces the course and its contents; Discusses the history of OSs.'); lecture('Architectural Support for Operating Systems', 'slides/02-arch-support.pptx', 'Interrupts and Traps; I/O and device drivers; OS Protection; OS Structure; Booting.', 'Ch. 1 & 2'); lecture('Processes and Threads', 'slides/03-processes-threads-v2.ppt', 'What is a process? What is a thread? How are they created and destroyed? How are processes and threads implemented?', 'Ch. 3', 2); lecture('CPU Scheduling', 'slides/04-scheduling.ppt', 'How does the OS decide which user processes/threads to schedule?', 'Ch. 7', 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. 4 & 5', 5); lecture('Deadlocks', 'slides/06-deadlocks.pptx', 'How to prevent synchronized threads from mutually blocking each other.', 'Ch. 4 & 5', 2); lecture('Memory Management', 'slides/07-main-memory.pptx', 'Memory organization. Paging. Segmentation. Page Tables. TLB Management.', 'Ch. 8', 2); lecture('Fall Break', '', '', ''); lecture('Virtual Memory', 'slides/VirtualMemory.pptx', '', 'Ch. 9', 2); lecture('Networking', 'slides/09-networking.pptx', 'Network organization. Ethernet. ARP. DHCP. DNS. IP. TCP. BGP. Routing overview.', '

Saltzer, Reed and Clark, End-to-End Arguments in System Design.

', 5); lecture('Disks and RAID', 'slides/disksraid-09.ppt', 'Disk Organization. Disk Interface. RAID.', 'Ch. 12'); lecture('File Systems', 'slides/filesystems-10.ppt', 'How are filesystems implemented, what are the performance implications for various designs? Persistence, Consistency, FAT, Unix File System, Log structured filesystems(PDF).', 'Ch. 13 & 14

Rosenblum and Ousterhout. The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System. ', 3); lecture('Security (1)', 'slides/security-12.ppt', 'Basics of authentication, authorization and privacy management in operating systems.', ''); lecture('Thanksgiving', '', '', ''); lecture('Security (2)', 'slides/security-12.ppt', '', ''); lecture('Advanced Operating Systems', '', '', ''); ?>
Date Topic Reading
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