Operating CS167: Systems
Course Information and Syllabus Semester I, 20072008
Lectures Room Help Sessions Lecture Notes Text
G hour: 2:002:50 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays CIT 368 Occasional Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 79pm, CIT 165 http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs167/lectures.html
A draft of the course textbook is available at the bookstore.
CS 36 (CS32 is also ok, but you will need to learn how to program in C and how to use POSIX threads. A minicourse on C will be given in the evenings during the first week of the semester. A twopart lecture on multithreaded programming will be given Tuesday evening, 9/??, and Thursday evening, 9/??, and a lab will be held at which you must complete a POSIX-threads programming assignment in C.) Tom Doeppner ([e-mail]) CIT 405, x3-7633 MWF 3 to 4:30, or by appointment Colin Gordon ([e-mail]) Itay Neeman ([e-mail]) Dan Kuebrich ([e-mail]) Aurojit Panda ([e-mail]) Lincoln Quirk ([e-mail]) Owen Strain ([e-mail]) 5 Programs (40%) (those taking CS169 need complete only the first
two CS167 programs)
Prerequisite
Instructor Office Office Hours Head TAs UTAs
Requirements
5 Homeworks (20%) Midterm Exam (10%) Final Exam (30%) Incompletes are granted only under exceptional circumstances (e.g. severe illness, death in the family, kidnapping, etc.; too heavy of a
Incomplete Policy
course load is not sufficient reason for an incomplete). Getting a dean to certify your reason for requesting an incomplete helps, but is not sufficient.
Assignments due on Fridays must be handed in by 10pm. Assignments due on other days must be handed in by 11:59pm.
Due Dates
Late Policy
Everyone is allowed a total of 3-days lateness on assignments free of charge. Beyond that, you are penalized 25% of the assignment's value for each day it is late (but you will not be penalized for more than assignment's the value). We will apply late days to assignments in an optimal fashion (with respect to your grade).
Lectures and Due Dates
Date
Sept 5 Sept 7 Sept 10 Sept 11 (7pm) Sept 11 (8:30pm) Sept 12 Sept 13 (7pm) Sept 14 Sept 17 Sept 19 Sept 21 Sept 24 Sept 26 Sept 27 (7pm) Sept 28 Oct 1 Oct 3 Oct 5 Oct 10 Oct 12 Oct 15 Oct 17 Oct 18
Topic
Intro. to CS167 and OS Introduction to UnixTM and OS Structure Introduction to UnixTM and OS Structure
Out
Program 1: Shell
Due
Programming with POSIX Threads part I (optional lecture) Help Session: Program 1
Basic Concepts
Programming with POSIX Threads part II (optional lecture)
Linkers and Loaders Threads Implementations Threads, Concurrency, and Interrupts Threads, Concurrency, and Interrupts OS Design: Weenix OS Design: Virtual Machines Program 3: Threads Impl. Program 2 Program 2: Term I/O Program 1
Help Session: Program 3
OS Design: Microkernels Scheduling Scheduling Virtual Memory: Architecture Virtual Memory: OS Virtual Memory: OS File Systems File Systems Homework 2; Program 4: VFS Program 3 Homework 1 Homework 1
Help Session: Program 4
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(7pm) Oct 19 Oct 22 Oct 23 (7pm...