CS 4410: Operating Systems

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Important information

Note: This is the summer 2015 page; if you are looking for the fall course website, it is here.

• Instructor: Michael George.
  Office hours Monday–Friday, 10:00–11AM or by appointment in Gates 447
• TA: Molly Higgins.
  Office hours Wednesday 7:30–8:30PM and Sunday 6:00–7PM in Gates G11
• Class meets Monday–Friday, 8:30–9:45AM in Bard 140
• Please read the syllabus

Schedule

(See also the 2014 fa lecture slides)

Topic	Date	Lecture notes	Additional material
HW/OS/App boundary	7/6	Introduction
	7/7	Architectural support for OS
	7/8	Processes and system calls	List of Linux system calls
	7/9	Scheduling
Synchronization	7/10	Intro to synchronization	The 12 commandments
	7/13	Spin locks, Quiz
	7/14	Semaphores	The little book of semaphores
	7/15	Monitors
	7/16	Classic problems
	7/17	Deadlock
	7/20	Deadlock mitigation, Quiz
Memory	7/21	Processes in memory
	7/22	Paging
	7/23	Page tables, segmentation
	7/24	Page replacement
	7/27	Thrashing, Quiz
Filesystems	7/28	Disk layout
	7/29	Files
	7/30	Filesystem recovery
	7/31	Log-structured filesystems	Rosenblum and Ousterhout. The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System.
	8/3a	RAID
Networking	8/3b	Ethernet
	8/4	Networking overview	Saltzer, Reed, and Clark. End-to-end Arguments in System Design.
	8/5	Network layer (IP)
	8/6	Transport layer (UDP,TCP)
	8/7	Application layer
Security	8/10	Encryption basics
	8/11	Authentication
	8/12	Authorization
Epilogue	8/13	Advanced topics
	8/14	Final exam