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CS 161. Operating Systems Matt Welsh Spring 2007 Syllabus and Schedule [CS161 Home Page]

Note: Course notes are Copyright (c) 2004-2007 by Matt Welsh. You are permitted to download, print, and use these notes for your personal use only. Redistribution or commercial publication is prohibited.

	Date		Topic	Readings	Assignments
Th	02/01/07		Intro
Tu	02/06/07		OS Structure	Tanenbaum Ch.1
Th	02/08/07		Processes	Tanenbaum 2.1
Tu	02/13/07		Threads	Tanenbaum 2.2	Asst 0 due in class
Th	02/15/07		Synchronization	Tanenbaum 2.3-2.4
Tu	02/20/07		CVs, semaphores, monitors
Th	02/22/07		Sync problems and deadlock	Tanenbaum Ch. 3
Tu	02/27/07		Scheduling	Tanenbaum 2.5-2.7	Asst 1 due Tuesday 5pm
Th	03/01/07		Virtual memory	Tanenbaum 4.1-4.3
Tu	03/06/07		Virtual memory	Tanenbaum 4.1-4.3	Asst 2 design doc due Tuesday 11:59 pm
Th	03/08/07		Demand Paging and Multilevel Page Tables
Tu	03/13/07		Page Replacement	Tanenbaum 4.4-4.10
Th	03/15/07		Page Replacement	Tanenbaum 4.4-4.10	Asst 2 due Friday 5pm
Tu	03/20/07		Linux case study: VM system	Linux VM book, Ch. 4-6
Th	03/22/07		Midterm in class
Tu	03/27/07		Spring Break
Th	03/29/07		Spring Break
Tu	04/03/07		Disks overview	Tanenbaum 5.1-5.4, 6.1-6.2	Asst 3 design doc due Wednesday 11:59pm
Th	04/05/07		Filesystem organization	Tanenbaum 6.3-6.6
Tu	04/10/07		Berkeley Fast Filesystem (FFS)
Th	04/12/07		Log-structured and journaling filesystems
Tu	04/17/07		NFS		Asst 3 due Wednesday 5pm
Th	04/19/07		RAID	RAID paper
Tu	04/24/07		Virtual machines: VM/370, VMWare and Xen		Asst 4 design doc due Wednesday 11:59pm
Th	04/26/07		Case study: Internet server design
Tu	05/01/07		Spin and Exokernel
Th	05/03/07		Distributed OS and Amoeba		Asst 4 due Friday 5pm
Mo	05/14/07				Take-home final exam released 5:00pm
Tu	05/15/07				Take-home final exam due 5:00pm