CS 423, Spring 2010

Operating Systems Design

Schedule

Here is the course schedule. Homework will be posted on the class website and should be submitted in class on the day it is due (unless stated otherwise).

Part	Date	Lecture	HW	Comments
Intro	January 20^th	Introduction and logistics
	January 22^nd	History
CPU	January 25^th	System Calls	MP1 out
	January 27^th	Threads and Processes
	January 29^th	Context Switching
	February 1^st	MP1 Q&A		Led by TA
	February 3^rd	Locks/Monitors
	February 5^th	Locks/Monitors
	February 8^th	Locks/Monitors	MP1 Due MP2 Out
	February 10^th	Thread Implementation
	February 12^th	Lock Implementation
	February 15^th	MP2 Q&A		Led by TA
	February 17^th	Scheduling
	February 19^th	Scheduling
VM	February 22^nd	Virtual Memory	MP2 Due
	February 24^th	Virtual Memory
	February 26^th	Midterm Review		Led by TA
	March 1^st	Midterm
VMM	March 3^rd	Midterm solutions/discussion
	March 5^th	MP2 extra Q&A		Led by TA
	March 8^th	Virtual Machines: Introduction
	March 10^th	Virtual Machines: Introduction
	March 12^th	Virtual Machines: Emulation
	March 15^th	Virtual Machines: Binary Translation	MP3 Out
	March 17^th	Process Virtual Machines
	March 19^th	MP3 Q&A		Led by TA
Spring Break	March 22^nd
	March 24^th
	March 26^th
Files	March 29^th	Process Virtual Machines
	March 31^st	System Virtual Machines
	April 2^nd	System Virtual Machines
	April 5^th	File systems	MP3 due MP4 out
Advanced Topics	April 7^th	File Systems
	April 9^th	File Systems
	April 12^th	MP4 Q&A		Led by TA
	April 14^th	Resource Management and Feedback Control		Guest lecture
	April 16^th	Resource Management and Feedback Control		Guest lecture
	April 19^th	Virtual Machines and Data Centers		Guest lecture
	April 21^st	Virtual Machines and Data Centers		Guest lecture
	April 23^rd	Virtual Machines and Data Centers
	April 26^th	QoS Support	MP4 due
	April 28^th	QoS Support	HW1 out
	April 30^th	QoS Support
	May 3^rd	Final Review
	May 5^th	Final (take home); bonus lecture on language VMs	HW1 due