Operating Systems - Fall 2013

Fall 2013

General Course Information:

Instructor: Lakshmish Ramaswamy (laks[AT]cs[dot]uga[dot]edu, 706-542-2737)

Time and Venue: Tuesdays & Thursdays - 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM (GSRC 306); Wednesdays - 2:30 PM to 3:20 PM (GSRC 306)

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursdays - 1:15 PM to 2:00 PM

TA: Jennifer Rouan (jdrouan@uga.edu)

TA Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays - 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Boyd 207A

Course Description:

Coverage of the key concepts in modern operating systems. Specific topics include process management, synchronization mechanisms, scheduling strategies, deadlock detection/avoidance, memory management, file systems, protection and security, and distributed systems. Concepts will be reinforced through programming projects using a realistic operating system.

Course Materials:

Textbook (Any one of the following):

Operating Systems Concepts with Java, 8th Edition by A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin and G. Gagne. ISBN 978-0-470-50949-4
Operating Systems Concepts, 8th Updated Edition by A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin and G. Gagne. ISBN 978-1-1181-1273-1

Programming Projects

Programming Project 1 --- Due Date: 08/29/2013
Programming Project 2 -- Due Date: 09/24/2013
Programming Project 3 -- Due Date: 10/11/2013 Extended -->10/13/2013 11:59 PM
Programming Project 4 -- Due Date: 11/08/2013, 11:59 PM

Homeworks:

Exercise # from Textbook	Presenter(s)	Presentation Day
1.8	Pham and Chalmers	09/10/13
1.13	Osama Mansour	09/10/13
1.22	Ayushi Jain	09/11/13
1.23	Sidi Liu	09/12/13
2.13	Aravind Kalimurthy	09/26/13
2.19	Sreekanth Pinjaja	09/26/13
2.21	Victor Joseph Ruberti	10/03/13
3.6	Khushboo Baghadiya	10/03/13
3.7
3.9	Reshma Pasumarthi
3.10	Johnson and Bruce
3.11	Gaherwar
5.3
5.5
5.15
6.8
6.12
7.7
7.19
8.4
8.9
8.11
8.23
9.2
9.8
9.19

Presentation Topics:

No.	Topic	Date	Group
1 (U)	Creation and history of Unix Also see this	09/10/13	Swindle and Hollingsworth
2 (U)	Overview of Unix	09/11/13	Ahmady & Sobrilsky
3 (U)	Origin and History of MS DOS and Windows OS Also see this	09/12/13	Mansour and Patton
4 (U)	Origin and history of Mac OS and OS X	09/19/13	Hromalik and Wilson
5 (G)	Virtual Machines -- VMWare, KVM, Xen, etc.	09/26/13	Jain
6 (G)	Java Virtual Machine Internals	10/03/13	Kalimurthy and Pinjala
7(U)	Socket Programming in Java	10/30/2013	Gunter and Kaine
8 (U)	Socket Programming in C/C++	10/17/2013	Claiborne and Wah
7 (U/G)	SUN/ONC RPC Also see this	10/17/2013	Pham and Chalmers
8 (U/G)	Java RMI Also see this	10/29/2013	Liu and Ruberti
9 (U/G)	Pthreads	10/29/2103	Johnson and Bruce
10 (U/G)	Java Threads	10/29/2013	Pasumarthi and Baghadiya
11 (U/G)	MPI	11/07/2013	Shim, Jaurigue and Whitaker
12 (U)	Java File I/O	10/30/2013	Refour and Garduno
13(U/G)	Garbage Collection in Java	10/31/2013	Coker and Coker
14(U/G)	Android OS	10/31/2013	Heidenhain and Ray
15(U/G)	TinyOS Also see this	10/31/2013	Tom Werth
16 (U/G)	Unix File System Also See this	11/07/2013	Kravchak
17 (U/G)	Network File System	11/07/2013	Ads and Solaimanpur
18 (G)	Google File System	11/14/2013	Gaherwar
19 (U/G)	Cloud Computing	11/14/2013	Kirby and Henry

Policies:

Late submission policy -- 10 points deduction per each late day. Zero points after 4 late days.
Due date extension -- Only for medical reasons or emergencies involving immediate family members (suitable documentation required)
Make-Up tests -- Only for medical reasons or emergencies involving immediate family members (suitable documentation required). No retakes.
Academic honesty -- UGA academic policy will be strictly followed.

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