CSCI 4730 / 6730 Operating Systems

Syllabus & Policies

Introduction to the course

Topic/presentation discussion

"Advice"

Project 1: YOSH (Due Sep 1)
C/UNIX Warm up

HW 1: An Introduction

Please write an intro message to the class list at URL:

CS-OS@listserv.uga.edu

 

Thursday Aug 20 -- Drop ends for undergraduate level courses only (1000 – 5999) at midnight.

Friday Aug 21 - Add ends at midnight for undergraduate courses.

Please read Chapter 1-2 for next week.

Try to show the movie again: I was finallly able to remove the DVD from the old computer - and tested it on the newer computer. So it looks like a go.

Please write an intro message to the class list at URL:

CS-OS@listserv.uga.edu

Thursday Aug 24 -- Drop ends for graduate level courses only (6000 – 9999) at midnight.

Friday Aug 25 - Add ends at midnight for graduate courses.

HW 2: Booting

Remainder movie (15 min)

OS Structures (20)

Project 1 discussion (20)

Example Summaries (used by permission) from different class:

example1.doc
example2.doc

In example2 - although a nice write-up overall, the critique of the speaker (last paragraph) is 2/5 - as it did not mention or convey the coverage of particular concepts.

OS Structures

Class Photo

C Tutorial

Please have a 'name tag' ready use for the individual pictures (e.g., it could be as simple as your name written on a piece of note book paper).

Taking Pictures with Digital Camera

Processes

Project 2 : Minix Kernel Gentle Hack and Installation

HW3: Design and Processes

First Mini-Conference on System Design and History

(1) Presenter 1/2/3: Topic: UNIX, Plan 9, Linux by Mustafa Nural, Topic: Dijkstra's "THE" by Sharon Paradesi, and Topic: Survey of VM Research by Animesh Thakre

Processes

Pop Quiz 1

(2) Presenter 4/5/6: Topic: Design & Wisdom by Sean Dunn and Topic: Microkernel by Johnny Chu.

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

Project 3 : Chatty Server & Client

Bonus 1: Process/Thread hack MINIX

(3) Presenter 7/8/9: Topic: Process Communication by Marilyn Cole, Topic: Process Communications by Meredith Burch , and Topic: IPC by Josh Callaway

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

Project 1 Grades (here) - does not include penalty for late turn-ins

Summary-HW Grades (here)

(4) Presenter 10/11/12: Theme Threads & Events by Abhishek Gupta, Ankit Jain, and Justin Martin

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

Project 4 : MUFiX: Multi Level Feed Back & Lottery Schedulers (preview available)

(5) Presenter 13/14/15: Topic: Theme Sceduling and Synchronization by Vijaykant Nadadur, Dajiang Zhu, and Xingran Xue

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

Synchronization

Team Assignments are listed here:

Real Time Systems text book (p 759-p777)

Guest Speaker : Protection & Security by Prof. Kang Li

Demonstration

October 08 is Official Middle of Term of for Fall 2009

Class Notes (if you missed this lecture, you will need to ask someone who attended)

Project 1 Grades (here) - includes penalty for late turn-ins

Project 2 Grades (here) - includes penalty for late turn-ins

Project 3 Grades (here) - includes penalty for late turn-ins

Grade Sheet (here) - all grades - except HW 5. Also does not include possible 1 pt extra for Java thread question

(7) Presenter 19/20/21: Theme: Distributed Systems by Jimmy Lipham, Jonathan Torre, and Teng Lu

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

Discuss Exam

(7) Real-Time Systems (A Summary Still Due)

Stank et al's "Implicate

Exam 1 Grades (Curved)

(link here)

(8) Presenter 22/23/24: Theme: P2P & Internet applications by Matt Verlander, Siva Ganesan, and John Clark

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

**** October 22 (Thursday) Withdrawal Deadline (Fall 2009)

Project 5 Semaphore

(9) Presenter 25/26/27: Theme: Errors, Reliability & Debugging by Qian Ma, Derrek Daniel, and Wei Yu

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

(10) Presenter 28/29/30: Theme: Case Studies (iPhone, Android, Juniper) by Josh Keister, Jason Cardwe

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

(11) Presenter 31/32/33: Theme: File Systems by Gavin Gresham, Robert Davis, and Mikul Bhatt

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

OS Jeopardy, No Summary Due

Project 6 Memory assigned (optional as a replacement project)

Bonus Project assigned (optional)

(12) Presenter 37/38/39: Theme Protection & Security by Michael Contreras and Ankur Oberai, John Sandlin

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

File Implementation

Tentatively Demos for Project 5

This Tuesday is viewed as a Friday

Classes End

Final Day 2 our Final

4:00-6:00 Chemistry Room #453

Dec 17
(Wednesday)