CSE 121 Spring 2003

Operating Systems: Architecture and Implementation

Lectures Tuesday and Thursday 3.30 to 4:50 in HSS  1128A
Section Wednesdays 3:00-3:50 in Center Hall 222.
Discussion board on discus.
 

Professor:	Keith Marzullo, x4-3729, office hours Tu/Thu 10:30 - 12:00 in APM 4824 or by appointment.
TA:	Richard Huang, office hours Fri 10:30-12:00 in APM 3337D.

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• Course mechanics
• Syllabus
• Homework
• Examinations
  
• Project
• Handouts and papers discussed in lecture

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The following schedule will be updated as the course proceeds.
 

Lecture #	Date	Topic	Assignments Due
1	1 April	Review of concurrency.
2	3 April	Review of concurrency, continued.
3	8 April	Unix File Systems.
4	10 April	Unix File Systems.
5	15 April	Unix Fast File System.
6	17 April	Log-structured File System.	Homework 1 (Thursday)
7	22 April	Journaling file systems and soft updates.	Phase 1 (Monday)
8	24 April	Rio File System Cache.
9	29 April	IPC in UNIX: processes, shared memory, pipes, semaphores, signals.
10	1 May	Virtual memory: basics, review.	Homework 2 (Friday)
11	6 May	Virtual memory: paging.
12	8 May	UNIX virtual memory.
13	13 May	Prefectching versus caching.	Phase 2 (Monday)
14	15 May	Global shared memory.
15	20 May	Distributed shared memory.	Homework 3 (Friday)
16	22 May	Distributed shared memory.
17	27 May	Devices: IOLite.
18	1 June	Kernel architectures: Mach
19	3 June	Kernel architectures: L4	Phase 3 (Tuesday)
20	5 June	TBA	Homework 4 (Friday)