Schedule

The course schedule is tentative and subject to change. This page will be updated frequently to reflect the most up-to-date schedule.

Date		Class	Topic	Readings
Mon	Sep 8	1	Introduction	Ch. 1.1
Wed	Sep 10	2	OS and Architecture	Ch. 1.2 - 1.9
Mon	Sep 15	3	OS Organization	Ch. 2.1 - 2.7, print_printf.c, print_syscall.c
Wed	Sep 17	4	Processes	Ch. 3.1 - 3.4, forktest.c, forkexec.c
Mon	Sep 22	5	CPU Scheduling	Ch. 6.1 - 6.4
Wed	Sep 24	6	CPU Scheduling (cont)
Mon	Sep 29	7	Threads	Ch. 4
Wed	Oct 1	8	Synchronization: Locks	Ch. 5.1 - 5.5
Mon	Oct 6	9	Semaphores and Monitors	Ch. 5.6 - 5.8
Wed	Oct 8	10	Readers and Writers
Mon	Oct 13		No class: Columbus Day
Wed	Oct 15	11	Dining Philosophers, Deadlocks	Ch. 7
Mon	Oct 20	12	Deadlocks, Banker's Algorithm
Wed	Oct 22	13	Memory Management	Ch. 8
Mon	Oct 27	14	Project 2, Paging
Wed	Oct 29	15	Paging & Address Translation
Mon	Nov 3		Midterm Exam	Ch. 1-7, Sample Midterm
Wed	Nov 5		No class: Instructor at conference
Mon	Nov 10	16	Segmentation, Segmented Paging
Wed	Nov 12	17	Demand Paging	Ch. 9
Mon	Nov 17	18	Page Replacement & Multiprogramming
Wed	Nov 19	19	File Systems: Interface	Ch. 11
Mon	Nov 24	20	File Systems: Implementation	Ch. 12
Wed	Nov 26		No class: Thanksgiving Break
Mon	Dec 1	21	Mass storage, disk scheduling	Ch. 10
Wed	Dec 3	22	I/O Systems and device drivers	Ch. 13
Mon	Dec 8	23	Virtualization & Cloud Computing	Ch. 16
Wed	Dec 10	24	Review and wrap-up
Tue	Dec 16		Final Exam	Ch. 1-13, 16, Sample Final