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CS311 - Introduction to Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Fall 2009) Book - Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne - Operating System Concepts, 8th edition First exam- 10/2 (F) 15% Second exam - 11/6 (F) 15% Final exam - 12/14 (M) 1-3:30pm 20% Quizzes, homework and labs 20% Current literature critique 10% Programming projects 20% Rough Schedule of Chapters and Topics Week #1 Chapter 1, sections 13.2, 13.3.4, 13.4.6, 1.1-21.4, 3.3, 4.4.1-4.4.3 chapter 2, and chapter 22 (stop at 22.3.2.2) - The history of operating systems - Roles of the O/S to different applications - O/S's from mainframes to PC's: O/S design strategies - Interrupts, system calls and basic shell process Weeks #2-3 Sections 12.1, 12.2, 13.3.1, 13.4, 13.5, 10.1, 10.2, Chapter 11, 21.7, 21.8, 22.5 rest of Chapter 10, 12.4-12.7 - Characteristics of physical I/O devices - Maintaining a file system, with directories, etc. Weeks 4-5 Chapters 3.1-3.3, 4.1, all of 5, 21.5, 22.7.3 - What is a (heavy-weight) process - The process view: scheduling of who uses the CPU - Threads (or light-weight processes) Weeks 6-7 Chapters 8-9, 21.6, 22.7.5 - Memory management: from contiguous, to paged, then segmented - Virtual memory and demand paging - Working Sets Week 8 Finish chapter 9 and then begin Chap 7 - Deadly embrace of resources (i.e. deadlock) Weeks 9-11 3.4, 3.6, 21.9, Chapter 6 - Inter-process communication (IPC) - Sharing of information and concurrency operations - Semaphores, critical sections, and events - Software monitors Weeks 12-14 material from Chapters 14-17, and all of 18, (as time permits) - Some security issues, Protection schemes and capabilities/access lists - Current trends in distributed systems This course will cover different operating systems, but the UNIX & Linux Operating Systems (OS) will be highlighted in greater detail and will be studied more closely. VMS, the DEC OS that was used primarily on the VAX mini-supercomputers, will also be studied in detail along with Windows. Taking advantage of multi-core processors, via concurrency techniques, will be heavily emphasized in the second half of the course.
Professor John A. Trono: JeanMarie 267, Phone - X2432 |