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