FSU COP4610 / CGS 5765
Principles of Operating Systems (Fall 2007)

Instructors
Andy Wang (awang@cs.fsu.edu)
Sara Stoecklin (Panama City Campus)

Teaching Assistant
Cory Fox (fox@cs.fsu.edu , subject: cop4610)

Textbook
Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 7th Edition, ISBN: 0-471-69466-5


Announcements

[Aug 24] Welcome to COP4610!

[Nov 6] This Thursday's office hour (11/8/2007) is cancelled.

[Dec 10] The final exam will be held this Thursday (12/13/2007) at 7:30am.


Lecture Slides

Lecture 1 (8/27/2007)
Experience Survey (Word XP)
Course Syllabus (Word XP)
Course Information (PowerPoint XP)
Introduction and History (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 1 (Word XP)
Reading: Chapter 1

Suggested Reading: The Emperor's Old Clothes, by Tony Hoare

Lecture 2 (8/29/2007)
Concurrency: Threads, Address Spaces, and Processes (PowerPoint XP)
Applying for Graduate Schools (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 3 (8/31/2007)
Genesis: From Raw Hardware to Processes (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Chapter 2

Lecture 4 (9/5/2007)
CPU Scheduling (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 2 (Word XP)
Reading: Chapter 5

Lecture 5 (9/7/2007)
Cooperating Threads (PowerPoint XP)
Synchronization (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 6.1 - 6.2

Lecture 6 (9/10/2007)
Implementing Mutal Exclusion (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 6.3 - 6.5

Lecture 7 (9/12/2007)
Semaphores and Bounded Buffer (PowerPoint XP)
More on Semaphores (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 3 (Word XP)

Lecture 8 (9/14/2007)
Monitors, Condition Variables, and Readers-Writers (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 9 (9/17/2007)
Deadlocks (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Chapter 7

Lecture 10 (9/19/2007)
Concurrency Conclusion (PowerPoint XP)
Why threads are a bad idea, by John Ousterhout (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 4 (Word XP)

Lecture 11 (9/21/2007)
Memory Protection (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 8.3 - 8.6

Lecture 12 (9/24/2007)
Address Translation (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 13 (9/26/2007)
Exam review (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 14 (9/28/2007)
Exam 1

Lecture 15 (10/1/2007)
Recitation

Lecture 16 (10/3/2007)
Exam 1 Debrief
Caching and TLBs (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 5 (Word XP)

Lecture 17 (10/5/2007)
Virtual Memory (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 9.1 - 9.7

Lecture 18 (10/8/2007)
Device Management and Disk Management (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 12.1 - 12.4, 13.1 - 13.3.1

Lecture 19 (10/10/2007)
File Systems (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 6 (Word XP)
Reading: Sections 10.1-10.3, 11.4

Lecture 20 (10/12/2007)
Naming and Directories (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 21 (10/15/2007)
Storage: From Atoms to People, by Robert Morris (MPEG)

Lecture 22 (10/17/2007)
Storage Bricks, by Jim Gray (MPEG)
Homework 7 (Word XP)

Lecture 23 (10/19/2007)
Transactions and Reliability (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 6.9 - 6.9.2, 11.8, 12.7

Lecture 24 (10/22/2007)
Some Research Frontiers in Storage Systems

Lectures 25/26 (10/24/2007, 10/26/2007)
Conquest: Preparing for Life After Disks (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 8 (Word XP)

Lecture 27 (10/29/2007)
PARAID: A Gear-Shifting Power-Aware RAID (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 28 (10/31/2007)
Exam review (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 29 (11/2/2007)
Exam 2 (please bring your IDs)

Lecture 30 (11/5/2007)
Recitation

Lecture 31 (11/7/2007)
Protection and Security (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 9 (Word XP)
Reading: Sections 15, 14.4 - 14.7

Lecture 32 (11/9/2007)
Recitation

Lecture 33 (11/14/2007)
Network Protocols (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 16.3 - 16.6

Lecture 34 (11/16/2007)
Network and Distributed Systems (PowerPoint XP)
Remote Procedure Call (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 35 (11/19/2007)
Distributed File Systems (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 36 (11/21/2007)
GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing Clusters (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 37 (11/26/2007)
ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems (PDF)

Lecture 38 (11/28/2007)
Automated Worm Fingerprinting (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 10 (Word XP)

Lecture 39 (11/30/2007)
Pastiche: Making Backup Cheap and Easy (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 40 (12/3/2007)
Rethink the Sync (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 41 (12/5/2007)
Recovery-Oriented Computing (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 42 (12/7/2007)
Exam review (PowerPoint XP)


Useful Resources

Discussion board

Lab resources
Lab Web page
Cross-Referecing Linux

Books
Gary Nutt, Kernel Projects for Linux
Kernighan, Ritchie, The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)
Corbet, Rubini, and Kroah-Hartman, Linux Device Drivers
Tanenbaum and Woodhull, Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)
Maxwell, Linux Core Kernel Commentary
Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition)


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Last modified on: July 22, 2006