Lectures - CSCI 402, Summer 2015

Preview:

• Lecture 1 will cover administrative stuff and introduction (Ch 1). You can get a preview by looking at slides from Spring 2015.
• (May 25, 2015) - Memory Day Holiday
• (Jul 6, 2015) - midterm exam (firm)
• (Aug 3, 2015) - final exam (firm)

• Administrative
  • course administration (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • exams (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • housekeeping (PDF) (6-up PDF) (frequent updates)

• Programming Assignments (covered in discussion sections)
  • warmup #1 (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • warmup #2 (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • kernel assignments (PDF) (6-up PDF)

• Ch 1 - Introduction
  • introduction (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • a simple OS (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • files (PDF) (6-up PDF) (will go over this 2nd after Ch 5)

• Ch 2 - Multithreaded Programming
  • thread creation, termination, synchronization (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • thread safety, deviations (PDF) (6-up PDF)

• Ch 3 - Basic Concepts
  • context switching, I/O (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • dynamic storage allocation (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • static linking and loading (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • shared libraries (PDF) (6-up PDF) (will go over this 8th after Ch 7)
  • booting (PDF) (6-up PDF)

• Ch 4 - Operating-System Design
  • a simple system (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • storage management (PDF) (6-up PDF) (will go over this first after Ch 5)
  • devices (PDF) (6-up PDF) (will go over this 5th after Ch 7)
  • virtual machines, microkernels (PDF) (6-up PDF) (will go over this 6th after Ch 7)

• Ch 5 - Processor Management
  • threads implementations (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • interrupts (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • scheduling (PDF) (6-up PDF) (will go over this 7th after Ch 7)

• Ch 6 - File Systems
  • the basics of file systems (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • performance improvements (PDF) (6-up PDF) (will go over this first after Ch 7)
  • crash resiliency (PDF) (6-up PDF) (will go over this 2nd after Ch 7)
  • directories and naming (PDF) (6-up PDF) (will go over this 3rd after Ch 7)
  • RAID, flash memory, case studies (PDF) (6-up PDF) (will go over this 4th after Ch 7)

• Ch 7 - Memory Management
  • virtual memory (PDF) (6-up PDF)
  • OS issues (PDF) (6-up PDF)

• Miscellaneous
  • blank slides (for use by instructor) (PDF)

Week #	Dates	Topics	Comments
1	1/12-1/15	administrative, introduction (Ch 1), a simple OS (Ch 1)	(warmup #1 starts)
2	1/19 1/20-1/22	(MLK holiday) a simple OS (Ch 1), thread creation, termination, synchronization (Ch 2)
3	1/26-1/29	thread creation, termination, synchronization (Ch 2)
4	2/2-2/5	thread safety, deviations (Ch 2), context switching, I/O (Ch 3)	(warmup #2 starts)
5	2/9,2/12	context switching, I/O (Ch 3), dynamic storage allocation (Ch 3)
6	2/16 2/17-2/19	(Presidents' day holiday) static linking and loading, booting (Ch 3), a simple system (Ch 4)
7	2/23-2/26	a simple system (Ch 4), threads implementations (Ch 5), interrupts (Ch 5)	(kenel #1 starts)
8	3/2-3/5	interrupts (Ch 5), files (Ch 1)
9	3/9-3/12	the basics of file systems (Ch 6), directories and naming (Ch 6)
-	3/16-3/19	(spring break)
10	3/23-3/24 3/25-3/26	virtual memory (Ch 7) midterm exam	(kenel #2 starts)
11	3/30-4/2	virtual memory (Ch 7), OS issues (Ch 7)
12	4/6-4/9	OS issues (Ch 7), crash resiliency (Ch 6)
13	4/13-4/16	RAID, flash memory, case studies (Ch 6), devices (Ch 4)	(kenel #3 starts)
14	4/20-4/23	virtual machines, microkernels (Ch 4)
15	4/27-4/30	scheduling (Ch 5), shared libraries (Ch 3)