A smiling pinto bean being poked with a fork; References to the PintOS operating system students build in this class, and the fork syscall.

CS 162: Operating Systems and System Programming

Instructors: Anthony D. Joseph, Natacha Crooks
Lecture: Asynchronous (Lecture Playlist)

Schedule (Tentative)

Week	Day	#	Lecture	Reading/Section	Homework	Project	Event	Forms
1	Tu 01/19	1	Overview, User/Kernel virtualization, HW management, protected sharing [pdf] [ppt]	A&D Ch 1	Release HW0: Intro
	Th 01/21	2	Four Fundamental Concepts of Operating Systems	A&D Ch 2
	F 01/22			Section 0: Tools, x86, and C			Autograder Registration Deadline	Pre-Semester Survey Due
2	M 01/25		61C/C Review Session Optional (TBD)			Release Project 0: Pintos Introduction
	Tu 01/26	3	Abstractions 1: Threads and Processes	A&D Ch 3
	W 01/27				HW0 Due
	Th 01/28	4	Abstractions 2: Files and I/O	A&D Ch 4	Release HW1: Lists
	F 01/29			Section 1: OS Concepts, Processes, Threads			Early Drop Deadline
3	M 02/01					Project 0 Due	Group Creation Deadline, Group Section Preference Form Deadline
	Tu 02/02	5	Abstractions 3: IPC, Pipes and Sockets	A&D Ch 5		Release Project 1: User Programs
	Th 02/04	6	Synchronization 1: Concurrency and Mutual Exclusion	Mars Pathfinder Priority Inversion Toyota Uncontroller Acceleration
	F 02/05			Section 2: Synchronization, Files
4	Tu 02/09	7	Synchronization 2: Semaphores (Con't), Lock Implementation, Atomic Instructions	A&D 6.1-6.4		Design Doc Due
	W 02/10				HW1 Due
	Th 02/11	8	Synchronization 3: Atomic Instructions (Con't), Monitors, Readers/Writers		Release HW2: Shell
	F 02/12			Section 3: Files, Pipes, Signals, Dup, Synchronization
5	M 02/15		President's Day Holiday
	Tu 02/16	9	Synchronization 4: Readers/Writers (Con't), Process Structure, Device Drivers
	Th 02/18		Midterm I (5-6:30PM)				Midterm I (5-6:30PM)
	F 02/19			Section 4: Synchronization, Sockets
6	Tu 02/23	10	Scheduling 1: Concepts and Classic Policies	A&D 7.1 - 7.4
	Th 02/25	11	Scheduling 2: Scheduling Case Studies, Realtime Scheduling, Forward Progress	A&D 7.6
	F 02/26			Section 5: Scheduling		Code Due
	Sun 02/28					Final Report Due
7	M 03/01					Release Project 2: Threads
	Tu 03/02	12	Scheduling 3: Performance, Deadlock	A&D Ch 6.5 - 6.7
	W 03/03				HW 2 Due
	Th 03/04	13	Memory 1: Address Translation & Virtual Memory	A&D Ch 8	Release HW3: Malloc
	F 03/05			Section 6: Scheduling, Deadlock
8	M 03/08					Design Doc Due
	Tu 03/09	14	Memory 2: Virtual Memory (Con't), Caching and TLBs
	Th 03/11	15	Memory 3: Caching and TLBs (Con't), Demand Paging	A&D Ch 9
	F 03/12			Section 7: Virtual Memory, Caches
9	Tu 03/16	16	Memory 4: Demand Paging Policies	A&D Ch 10 & 12
	W 03/17		Optional Midterm Review Optional (TBD)
	Th 03/18		Midterm II				Midterm II (5-6:30pm)
	F 03/19			Section 8: Demand Paging	HW3 Due
	Sat 03/20				Release HW4: Memory
10	Tu 03/23		Spring Recess (No classes)
	Th 03/25		Spring Recess (No classes)
	F 03/26		Spring Recess (No classes)
11	Tu 03/30	17	Demand Paging (Finished), General I/O, Storage Devices	A&D Ch 10 & 12
	Th 04/01	18	General I/O (Con't), Storage Devices, Performance	A&D Ch 7.5 - 7.8
	F 04/02			Section 9: I/O, Devices, Queueing Theory		Code Due
	Sun 04/04					Final Report Due
12	M 04/05					Release Project 3: Filesys
	Tu 04/06	19	Filesystems 1: Performance (Cont'), Queueing Theory, Filesystem Design	A&D Ch 11 & 13
	W 04/07				HW4 Due
	Th 04/08	20	Filesystems 2: Filesystem Design (Con't), Filesystem Case Studies		Release HW5: HTTP Server
	F 04/09			Section 10: Filesystems
13	M 04/12					Design Doc Due
	Tu 04/13	21	Filesystems 3: Filesystem Case Studies (Con't), Buffering, Reliability, Transactions	A&D Ch 14 NFS
	Th 04/15	22	Transactions (Con't), End-to-End Arguments, Distributed Decision Making	End to End
	F 04/16			Section 11: Filesystems, Journaling
14	Tu 04/20	23	Distributed Decision Making (Con't), Networking and TCP/IP	Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit (Ch 1, 2, 4), Dist Sys: RPC
	Th 04/22	24	Networking and TCP/IP (Con't), RPC, Distributed File Systems	Van Jacobsen's TCP paper, NFS filesystem
	F 04/23			Section 12: Networking, 2PC, RPC
15	M 04/26		Optional Midterm Review
	Tu 04/27	25	Distributed Storage, NFS and AFS, Key Value Stores	Chord Paper, Amazon Dynamo
	Th 04/29		Midterm III				Midterm III (5-6:30pm)
	F 04/30			Section 13 : Distributed Systems	HW5 Due
16	Tu 05/04		RRR (No classes)
	W 05/05		RRR (No classes)			Code & Final Report Due
	Th 05/06		RRR (No classes)			Release Pintos Fun
	F 05/07		RRR (No classes)
17	F 05/14		No Final Exam

Weekly Discussion Schedule (Tentative)

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	Thursday	Friday
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30		DIS102: Online (Eleanor)
11:30-12:00		DIS102: Online (Eleanor)
12:00-12:30		DIS103: Online (Eleanor)		DIS104: Online (Kevin)
12:30-1:00		DIS103: Online (Eleanor)		DIS104: Online (Kevin)
1:00-1:30		DIS105: Online (Kevin)	DIS106: Online (Alina)		DIS107: Online (Allan)
1:30-2:00		DIS105: Online (Kevin)	DIS106: Online (Alina)		DIS107: Online (Allan)
2:00-2:30		DIS108: Online (Alina)		DIS109: Online (Allan)
2:30-3:00		DIS108: Online (Alina)		DIS109: Online (Allan)
3:00-3:30		DIS110: Online (William)
3:30-4:00		DIS110: Online (William)
4:00-4:30		DIS111: Online (William)
4:30-5:00		DIS111: Online (William)
5:00-5:30
5:30-6:00
6:00-6:30
6:30-7:00
7:00-7:30
7:30-8:00
8:00-8:30	DIS101: Online (Akshat)
8:30-9:00	DIS101: Online (Akshat)
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00

Please note that all events start 10 minutes after they are listed on the above calendar due to Berkeley time.

Office Hours

This calendar includes changes in the normal Office Hours schedule (cancellation and rescheduling).