CSC 501 Operating System Principles

Fall 2010
Monday/Wednesday, 3:50pm - 5:05pm
 EB2 1231

Instructor	Announcement	About the Course
Format	Schedule	Resources

Instructor:

Dr. Xiaohui (Helen) Gu

• Office hours:  by appointment
• Office: EBII 3274
• Phone: (919) 515-7045
• E-mail: gu AT csc.ncsu.edu

Teaching assistant:

Kamal Kc

• Office hours: to be annouced
  
• Office: EB2 3224
  
• E-mail: kkc AT ncsu.edu
  
  

To be announced

• Office hours: to be announced
  
• Office: EB2 3224
  
• E-mail: to be announced
  
  

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Announcement:

• Please fill out the affidavit and return it by 8/25.
  

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About the Course

Textbook (There is no required text book. The exams are based on lectures).

• Operating System Concepts, Eighth Edition (optional)
• Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 4/e (optional)
• Distributed Operating Systems (optional)
• Operating System Design: The XINU approach (optional)
  
• Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective (optional)
• Linux Kernel 2.4 Internals (reference)
• Understanding the Linux Kernel (reference)

Syllabus

Prerequisites

• CSC 246, CSC 314, programming competence in C and Unix.
  

Mailing list

• csc501-001@wolfware.ncsu.edu

Message Board:

• http://courses.ncsu.edu/csc501

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Format and evaluation

A student's performance in this course will be evaluated through homework assignments, quizzes and exams.

Programming assignments (50%)

Quizzes (5%)

Exams (45%, midterm: 20%, final: 25%)

Policy

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Schedule

The tentative schedule is as follows.  We may change the schedule as needed, with good reasons.

W	Date	Topics	Programming Assignment	Handout
1	08/18/08(W)	Cancelled due to  conference travel
2	08/23/09(M)	Introduction& OS Structure
	08/25/09(W)	Processes
3	08/30/09(M)	Threads
	09/01/09(W)	Scheduling
4	09/06/09(M)	Labor Day, No Class
	09/08/09(W)	Scheduling
5	09/13/09(M)	Synchronization
	09/15/09(W)	Synchronization
6	09/20/09(M)	Synchronization
	09/22/09(W)	Deadlock
7	09/27/09(M)	Deadlock
	09/29/09(W)	Interrupt
8	10/04/09(M)	In-class Midterm
	10/06/09(W)	Memory Management
9	10/11/09(M)	Memory management
	10/13/09(W)	Memory management
10	10/18/09(M)	Memory management
	10/20/09(W)	Memory management
11	10/25/09(M)	Memory management
	10/27/09(W)	I/O management
12	11/01/09(M)	Storage
	11/03/09(W)	File Systems
13	11/08/09(M)	File Systems
	11/10/09(W)	Virtual Machines
14	11/15/09(M)	Distributed Systems
	11/17/09(W)	Google Internals/Cloud Computing
15	11/22/09(M)	MapReduce
	11/24/09(W)	No Class
16	11/29/09(M)	Autonomic Computing
	12/01/09(W)	Final review session
		Final Exam

Acknowledgement

This course includes materials provided by Dr. Vincent Freeh, Dr. Frank Meuller, Dr. Xiaosong Ma, and Dr. Xuxian Jiang.

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