CS 6460-001 Spring 2014 Operating Systems

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Instructor

Anton Burtsev (MEB 3490E)

Meeting Time

Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:10 - 10:30 in WEB L103

TA Hours

Sarah: Monday 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM  Friday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Scott: Monday 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Sriraam: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Saurav: Wednesday 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Anton: Wednesday 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Friday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM  (but feel free to stop by any time I'm in my office).

Office hours will be held in the CADE lab.

Questions and Support

Ask all your questions about homeworks on Canvas Discussion Board

You can also reach all instructors through teach-cs5460@list.eng.utah.edu

Grading policy 

Homework: 60%, midterm exam: 15%, final exam: 25% of your grade. 

Late homework policy

Each student has 72 hours of slack time, manage it on your own

You can submit late homework for 60% of the grade

Books

Xv6 a Simple, Unix-like Teaching Operating System Links to an external site.. Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, Rober Morris.

Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual (Combined volumes) Links to an external site.

Course Summary:

Date Details Due
Tue Jan 7, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 1. Introduction 12am
Thu Jan 9, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 2. xv6 12am
Calendar Event Reading: Chapter 0. Operating System Interfaces 12am
Tue Jan 14, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 3: The First Process 12am
Thu Jan 16, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 4. Hardware interface 12am
Calendar Event Reading: Chapter 2. 12am
Calendar Event Reading: Chapter 3 12am
Assignment Assignment 1 \ git setup\ sh.c due by 11:59pm
Tue Jan 21, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 5: Paging 12am
Thu Jan 23, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 6: Interrupts & Exceptions 12am
Fri Jan 24, 2014 Assignment Assignment 2 due by 11:59pm
Tue Jan 28, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 7: System Boot 12am
Thu Jan 30, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 8: System Init 12am
Tue Feb 4, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 09: First proccess 12am
Calendar Event Reading: Ch 1-3 12am
Assignment Lab 1 due by 11:59pm
Thu Feb 6, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 10: Context switch 12am
Tue Feb 11, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 11: Locking 12am
Calendar Event Reading: Chapter 4 (Locking) 12am
Thu Feb 13, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 12: Synchronization and Scalability 12am
Calendar Event Reading: Synchronization & Scalability 12am
Tue Feb 18, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 13: Memory barriers 12am
Calendar Event Reading: Scalability, cache coherence, memory barriers 12am
Thu Feb 20, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 14: Scalability techniques 12am
Tue Feb 25, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 15: Scheduling 12am
Assignment Lab 2 due by 11:59pm
Thu Feb 27, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 16: Midterm Recap 12am
Tue Mar 4, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 17: File systems 12am
Thu Mar 6, 2014 Calendar Event Midterm Exam 9:10am to 10:20am
Assignment Midterm 1 due by 11:59pm
Tue Mar 11, 2014 Calendar Event Spring Break 12am
Thu Mar 13, 2014 Calendar Event Spring Break 12am
Tue Mar 18, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 18: Midterm discussion 12am
Thu Mar 20, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 19: Memory management 12am
Tue Mar 25, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 20: Linking and loading 12am
Wed Mar 26, 2014 Assignment xv6 big Files due by 11:59pm
Thu Mar 27, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 21: Shared Libraries 12am
Tue Apr 1, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 22: Process virtual memory 12am
Thu Apr 3, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture canceled 12am
Tue Apr 8, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 23: Buffer cache 12am
Thu Apr 10, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 24: Device drivers 12am
Tue Apr 15, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 25: Virtualization 12am
Thu Apr 17, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 26: Virtualization 2 12am
Tue Apr 22, 2014 Calendar Event Lecture 27: Final recap 12am
Mon Apr 28, 2014 Calendar Event Final Exam 8am to 10am
Assignment Finals due by 11:59pm
Thu May 1, 2014 Assignment XV6 shared mem due by 11:59pm
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