Operating Systems (Fall 2015)

Course Outline

Here is the course outline for COMP 3000: Operating Systems.

Lectures and Exams

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Note that the topics below are primarily chapters from the class textbook, Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Note that while introductory and summary dialogues are not linked below, they are worth reading for an informal take on the material.

Date	Topic
Sept. 2	Lecture 1: Introduction
Sept. 10	Lecture 2: Processes, Process API
Sept. 12	Lecture 3: Limited Direct Execution
Sept. 17	Lecture 4: CPU Scheduling, MLFQ
Sept. 19	Lecture 5: Lottery Scheduling, Multi-CPU scheduling
Sept. 24	Lecture 6: Address Spaces, Memory API
Sept. 26	Lecture 7: Address Translation, Segmentation
Oct. 1	Lecture 8: Free space management, Paging
Oct. 3	Lecture 9: Concurrency and Threads, Locks
Oct. 8	Lecture 10: Concurrent Data Structures, Thread API
Oct. 10	Lecture 11: Condition Variables, Semaphores, Concurrency Problems
Oct. 15	Lecture 12: TLBs, Smaller Tables
Oct. 17	Lecture 13: Midterm Review
Oct. 22	Midterm (in class)
Oct. 24	Midterm solutions
Nov. 5	Lecture 14: Hard Disk Drives, File and Directories
Nov. 7	Lecture 15: FSCK and Journaling
Nov. 12	Lecture 16: I/O Devices
Nov. 14	Lecture 17: File System Implementation, FFS
Nov. 19	Lecture 18: RAID, Log-structured FS (optional readings)
Nov. 21	Lecture 19: Data Integrity and Protection
Nov. 26	Lecture 20: Distributed Systems, Swapping: Mechanisms, Swapping: Policies
Nov. 28	Lecture 21: NFS, AFS (optional readings)
Dec. 3	Lecture 22: Assignment Solutions 1
Dec. 5	Lecture 23: Assignment Solutions 2