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 Systems Programming

Instructors: Edward Zeng, Rahul Kumar

Schedule

Week	Date	#	Lecture	Readings/Discussions	Homework	Project	Event
1	Sun 06/19
	Mon 06/20
	Tue 06/21	1	Overview, User/Kernel Virtualization, HW management, Protected Sharing [Video]	A&D Ch 1	Release Homework 0: Introduction
	Wed 06/22	2	Four Fundamental Concepts of Operating Systems [Video]	A&D Ch 2, Discussion 0: C, x86 [Worksheet] [Solutions] [Walkthrough]
	Thu 06/23	3	Processes, System Calls, and Fork [Video]	A&D Ch 4		Release Project 0: Introduction to Pintos
	Fri 06/24						C Review Session (2-4 PM) [Video]
	Sat 06/25
2	Sun 06/26
	Mon 06/27	4	Fork (Con't), Introduction to I/O [Video]	Discussion 1: Fundamentals, Processes, Pintos Lists [Worksheet] [Solution] [Walkthrough]	Due
	Tue 06/28	5	Sockets and IPC (Finished), Concurrency (Processes and Threads) [Video]		Release Homework 1: Lists		Group Registration Deadline
	Wed 06/29	6	Synchronization 1: Concurrency and Mutual Exclusion [Video]	Discussion 2: Threads, IO [Worksheet] [Solution] [Walkthrough]		Due
	Thu 06/30	7	Synchronization 2: Concurrency (Con't), Lock Implementation, Atomic Instructions [Video]	Mars Pathfinder Priority Inversion Toyota Uncontroller Acceleration		Release Project 1: User Programs
	Fri 07/01				Due
	Sat 07/02				Release Homework 2: Shell
3	Sun 07/03
	Mon 07/04	8	Synchronization 3: Locks, Semaphores, Monitors	Discussion 3: Mutual Exclusion, Condition Variables [Worksheet] [Solution] [Walkthrough]
	Tue 07/05	9	Synchronization 4: Semaphores (Con't), Monitors and Readers/Writers			Design Doc Due
	Wed 07/06	10	Scheduling 1: Concepts and Classic Policies	A&D Ch 7.1-7.2			HTTP HW Crash Course (Tentative)
	Thu 07/07	11	Scheduling 2: Scheduling Case Studies, Realtime Scheduling, Forward Progress	A&D Ch 7.4&7.6
	Fri 07/08				Due
	Sat 07/09				Release Homework 3: HTTP
4	Sun 07/10
	Mon 07/11	12	Scheduling 3: Starvation (Finished), Deadlock	A&D Ch 6			Midterm Exam Preferences Form Due
	Tue 07/12	13	Memory 1: Address Translation, Virtual Memory	A&D Ch 8		Code and Final Report Due	Midterm Review Session
	Wed 07/13	14	Memory 2: Virtual Memory (Con't), Caching and TLBs	A&D Ch 9
	Thu 07/14	15	Memory 3: Caching and TLBs (Con't), Demand Paging				Midterm Exam (5-7 PM)
	Fri 07/15					Release Project 2: Threads
	Sat 07/16
5	Sun 07/17
	Mon 07/18	16	Memory 4: Demand Paging Policies	A&D Ch 10 & 12		Design Doc Due
	Tue 07/19	17	General I/O, Storage Devices		Due
	Wed 07/20	18	General I/O (Con't), Storage Devices, Performance	A&D Ch 7.5	Release Homework 4: Memory Management
	Thu 07/21	19	Filesystems 1: Performance (Cont'), Queueing Theory, Filesystem Design	A&D Ch 11 & 13
	Fri 07/22
	Sat 07/23
6	Sun 07/24
	Mon 07/25	20	Filesystems 2: Filesystem Design (Con't), Filesystem Case Studies			Code and Final Report Due
	Tue 07/26	21	Filesystems 3: Filesystem Case Studies (Con't), Buffering, Reliability, Transactions	A&D Ch 14 NFS
	Wed 07/27	22	Transactions (Con't), End-to-End Arguments, Distributed Decision Making	End to End		Release Project 3: Filesys
	Thu 07/28	23	Distributed Decision Making (Con't), Networking and TCP/IP	Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit (Ch 1, 2, 4), Dist Sys: RPC
	Fri 07/29				Due
	Sat 07/30
7	Sun 07/31
	Mon 08/01	24	Networking and TCP/IP (Con't), RPC, Distributed File Systems	Van Jacobsen's TCP paper, NFS filesystem		Design Doc Due	Final Exam Preferences Form Due
	Tue 08/02	25	RPC, NFS and AFS	Chord Paper, Amazon Dynamo			Final Review Session
	Wed 08/03
	Thu 08/04						Final Exam (5-7 PM)
	Fri 08/05
	Sat 08/06
8	Sun 08/07
	Mon 08/08
	Tue 08/09
	Wed 08/10
	Thu 08/11					Code and Final Report Due
	Fri 08/12
	Sat 08/13

Discussion and Office Hours

This calendar includes cancellation and rescheduling.