| Week | Date | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8/26(M) | Course Syllabus [PDF] L1: Introduction to Operating Systems [PDF] | Mandatory first-day attendance.No-shows will be dropped. |
| 8/28(W) | L2: Operating-System Structures [PDF](OS Services, Structure, Interface, and System Call) | ||
| 8/29(Th) | Project Syllabus [Link] Project 1 [Link] | Project 1 Released in Recitation | |
| 2 | 9/2(M) | No class due to Labor Day. | |
| Process and Thread Management | |||
| 2 | 9/4(W) | L3: Introduction to Concurrency [PDF][Code](OS State Machine, Process & Thread, and Amdahl's Law) | HW 1 Posted on Canvas |
| 3 | 9/9(M) | L4: CPU Scheduling [PPT](OS Boot, Process Creation, Address Space, Scheduling) | HW 1 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 2 Posted on Canvas |
| 9/11(W) | L5: Independent & Cooperating Threads [PDF][Code](Race Condition and Loss of Atomicity) | ||
| 4 | 9/16(M) | L6: Concurrency Control: Mutual Exclusion [PDF][Code](Lock Failures, Peterson’s Algorithm, and Spin Locks) | HW 2 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 3 Posted on Canvas |
| 9/18(W) | L7: UNIX Shell / Project 1 (Shell Programming) Hints [PDF] (File Descriptor, Redirection, Piping) |
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| 5 | 9/23(M) | L8: Concurrency Control: Advanced Mutual Exclusion [PDF](Mutex & Futex Locks) | |
| 9/25(W) | Class canceled due to hurricane. | ||
| 6 | 9/30(M) | L9: Concurrency Control: Synchronization [PDF][Code](Producer-Consumer, Condition Variables, and Semaphores) | HW 3 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 4 Posted on Canvas |
| 10/2(W) | L10: Concurrent Programming in Real World [PDF][Code](HPC, Data Center, and Human-Computer Interaction)Project 2 [Link] | Project 2 Released in Class | |
| 10/3(Th) | PROJ 1 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) | ||
| 7 | 10/7(M) | L11: Concurrency Bugs and Solutions /Project 2 (Kernel Programming) Hints(Deadlocks [PDF] and Defensive Programming [PDF][Code]) | HW 4 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 5 Posted on Canvas |
| Memory Management | |||
| 7 | 10/9(W) | L12: Memory Protection and Address Translation[PPT](Base-and-Bound Translation, Segmentation, Paging) | |
| 8 | 10/14(M) | L13: Caching and TLBs [PPT] | HW 5 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) HW 6 Posted on Canvas |
| 10/16(W) | Midterm Exam Review [PDF]Midterm Assignment Solutions [PDF] | ||
| 9 | 10/21(M) | Midterm Exam (1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m) | |
| 10/23(W) | L14: Virtual Memory [PPT] | HW 6 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) HW 7 Posted on Canvas | |
| 10 | 10/28(M) | L15: Program Execution in Memory [PDF] (Shell, libc, elf) | |
| Device Management | |||
| 10 | 10/30(W) | L16: I/O Devices [PDF] (Interface, Bus, Interrupt, DMA, Heterogeneous Computing) |
HW 7 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 8 Posted on Canvas |
| 10/31(Th) | Project 3 [Link] | Project 3 Released in Recitation | |
| 11/1(F) | PROJ 2 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) | ||
| 11 | 11/4(M) | L17: Device Driver [PDF][Code] (Abstraction, Design, CUDA) |
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| File Management | |||
| 11 | 11/6(W) | L18: Storage Devices [PDF] (Storage Methods, Abstraction, Sharing) |
HW 8 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) HW 9 Posted on Canvas |
| 12 | 11/11(M) | No class due to Veterans Day. | |
| 11/13(W) | L19: File System API [PDF] (Namespace, Directory, FAT, ext2) |
HW 9 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) | |
| 13 | 11/18(M) | L20: Data Reliability and Modern Storage Systems [PDF] (RAID, Crash, FSCK, Journaling, Distributed Storage) |
HW 10 Posted on Canvas |
| Network Management | |||
| 13 | 11/20(W) | L21: Network Principles [PPT] and Emerging Research (Cross-Technology Communication, mmWave, Backscatter) |
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| Course Summary | |||
| 14 | 11/25(M) | L22: Bringing it All Together [PDF](A Program From Circuit to Execution) | |
| 11/27(W) | No class Due to Thanksgiving. | HW 10 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) | |
| 15 | 12/2(M) | Final Exam Review [PDF] | |
| 12/4(W) | L23: What Makes Android a Good Operating System? [PDF] (Code from Classroom to Global Stage) |
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| 12/6(F) | PROJ 3 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) | ||
| 16 | 12/9(M) | No Class Due to Final Examination Week. | |
| 12/11(W) |
Final Exam (12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m) NO MAKE-UPs |
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