FSU COP 5611 (Spring 2026)
Advanced Operating Systems

Instructor

Andy Wang (aawang@fsu.edu)

Announcements

[Jan 1] Welcome to COP 5611!

Course Material

Lecture 1 (1/8/2026)

Course Syllabus (PDF)

Course Information (PPT)

Course Introduction (PPT)

The UNIX Time-Sharing System by Ritchie and Thompson

End-to-End Arguments in System Design

Lecture 2 (1/13/2026)

Advanced File Systems (PPT)

A Fast File System for UNIX

UNIX Disk Access Patterns (optional)

A File is Not a File (optional)

FFS, LFS, and RAID (PPT)

An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System for UNIX

Lecture 3 (1/15/2026)

File System Extensibility (PPTX)

File system Development with Stackable Layers

Lecture 4 (1/20/2026)

F2FS: A New File System for Flash Storage (PPTX)

Nova: A Log-structured File System for Hybrid Volatile/Non-volatile Main Memories (Slides)

Aerie: Flexible File-System Interfaces to Storage-Class Memory (Slides)

Strata: A Cross Media File System (Slides)

Silhouette: Leveraging Consistency Mechanisms to Detect Bugs in Persistent Memory-Based File Systems (Slides)

Lecture 5 (1/22/2026)

Memory Management and Caching for File Systems (PPTX)

Possible course projects

Lecture 6 (1/27/2026)

Threads, Events, and Scheduling (PPT)

Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management

Interprocess Communications (PPT)

Interprocess Communications 2 (PowerPoint XP)

Opal: A Single Address Space System for 64-bit Architectures

Lecture 7 (1/29/2026)

Networks (PPTX)

Lecture 8 (2/3/2026)

Exam 1 (covers lectures 1-8; please bring your bluebook and ID)

Lecture 9 (2/5/2026)

Project proposal presentations

Lecture 10 (2/10/2026)

Operating System Organization (PowerPoint XP)

On Micro-Kernel Construction by Jochen Liedtke

An Overview of the Spring System

Lecture 11 (2/12/2026)

Operating System Organization Continued (PowerPoint XP)

Slacker: Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker Contaniers (PDF)

Lecture 12 (2/17/2026)

Distributed Operating Systems (PowerPoint XP)

Dominant Resource Fairness Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types

Chapter 1, Distributed Operating Systems by Tanenbuam and Steen (optional)

Lecture 13 (2/19/2026)

Distributed Operating Systems (Part II) (PowerPoint XP)

In Search of an Understandable Concensus Algorithm

Paxos Made Simple by Lamport (optional)

Copysets: Reducing the Frequency of Data Loss in Cloud Storage (optional)

Lecture 14 (2/24/2026)

Distributed Operating Systems (Part III) (PowerPoint XP)

Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (optional)

Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems (optional)

Lecture 15 (2/26/2026)

IPC in Distributed Operating Systems (PowerPoint XP)

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System by Leslie Lamport

Lecture 16 (3/3/2026)

Distributed File Systems (PowerPoint XP)

An Overview of the Andrew File System (optional)

Lecture 17 (3/5/2026)

Distributed File Systems II (PowerPoint XP)

Serverless Network File Systems

Lecture 18 (3/10/2026)

Exam 2 (please bring your ID, covers lectures 11-18)

Useful Resources

Writing Tips

An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submission

FSU COP 5611 (Spring 2026) Advanced Operating Systems

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Course Material

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FSU COP 5611 (Spring 2026)
Advanced Operating Systems