FSU COP4610 / CGS 5765
Principles of Operating Systems (Fall 2008)

Instructor
Andy Wang (awang@cs.fsu.edu)

Teaching Assistant
Cory Hekimian-Williams (cop4610t@cs.fsu.edu, subject: cop4610)

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


Announcements

[Aug 25] Welcome to COP4610!

[Sept 2] Next Monday's office hour (9/8) is cancelled.

[Sept 16] This Friday's and next Monday's office hours (9/19, 9/22) are cancelled.

[Sept 18] For 9/23, the class will start at 2:45pm.

[Oct 30] For the 2nd exam, the mean was 51, and the standard deviation was 13.

[Nov 17] Today's office hour is cancelled.


Lecture Slides

Lecture 1 (8/26/2008)
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 (8/28/2008)
Concurrency: Threads, Address Spaces, and Processes (PowerPoint XP)
Applying for Graduate Schools (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 3 (9/2/2008)
Genesis: From Raw Hardware to Processes (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 2 (Word XP)
Reading: Chapter 2

Lecture 4 (9/4/2008)
CPU Scheduling (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Chapter 5

Lecture 5 (9/9/2008)
Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, by Randy Pausch (FLV)
Homework 3 (Word XP)

Lecture 6 (9/11/2008)
Cooperating Threads (PowerPoint XP)
Synchronization (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 6.1 - 6.2

Lecture 7 (9/16/2008)
Implementing Mutal Exclusion (PowerPoint XP)
Semaphores and Bounded Buffer (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 4 (Word XP)
Reading: Sections 6.3 - 6.5

Lecture 8 (9/18/2008)
More on Semaphores (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 9 (9/23/2008)
Scott McNealy's talk (1:15-2:30pm at the FSU Alumni Center)
Exam review (2:45pm) (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 10 (9/25/2008)
Exam 1 (please bring your ID)

Lecture 11 (9/30/2008)
Monitors, Condition Variables, and Readers-Writers (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 5 (Word XP)

Lecture 12 (10/2/2008)
Deadlocks (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Chapter 7

Lecture 13 (10/7/2008)
Concurrency Conclusion (PowerPoint XP)
Why threads are a bad idea, by John Ousterhout (PowerPoint XP)
Memory Protection (PowerPoint XP)
Address Translation (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 6 (Word XP)
Reading: Sections 8.3 - 8.6

Lecture 14 (10/9/2008)
Caching and TLBs (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 15 (10/14/2008)
Virtual Memory (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 7 (Word XP)
Reading: Sections 9.1 - 9.7

Lecture 16 (10/16/2008)
Device Management and Disk Management (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 12.1 - 12.4, 13.1 - 13.3.1

Lecture 17 (10/21/2008)
File Systems (PowerPoint XP)
Naming and Directories (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 8 (Word XP)

Lecture 18 (10/23/2008)
Exam review (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 19 (10/28/2008)
Exam 2 (please bring your ID)

Lecture 20 (10/30/2008)
Transactions and Reliability (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 6.9 - 6.9.2, 11.8, 12.7

Lecture 21 (11/4/2008)
Power-Aware RAID (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 9 (Word XP)

Lecture 22 (11/6/2008)
Conquest: Preparing for Life After Disks (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 23 (11/11/2008)
Veteran's Day

Lecture 24 (11/13/2008)
Protection and Security (PowerPoint XP)
Reading: Sections 15, 14.4 - 14.7

Lecture 25 (11/18/2008)
Network Protocols (PowerPoint XP)
Network and Distributed Systems (PowerPoint XP)
Homework 10 (Word XP)
Reading: Sections 16.3 - 16.6

Lecture 26 (11/20/2008)
Remote Procedure Call (PowerPoint XP)
Distributed File Systems (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 27 (11/25/2008)
ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems (PDF)

Lecture 28 (11/27/2008)
Happy Thanksgiving!

Lecture 29 (12/2/2008)
Automated Worm Fingerprinting (PowerPoint XP)

Lecture 30 (12/4/2008)
Final 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)


awang@cs.fsu.edu
Last modified on: August 11, 2008