- Lectures:
- Wed 2:30pm – 4:15pm, MMW LT1
- Thu 11:30am – 12:15pm, MMW LT1
- Tutorials:
- Thu 2:30pm – 3:15pm, SHB 904
- Thu 5:30pm – 6:15pm, SHB 123
Member | Role | Office Hours |
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Xu, Hong (Henry) | Prof | Mon 3-5 pm, SHB 914. By appointments only. |
Wu, Shaofeng | Head TA | Mon 3-5 pm, SHB 117. |
Tan, Xin | TA | Mon 3-5 pm, SHB 117. |
Luo, Qin | TA | Tue 1-3 pm, SHB 913. |
The Piazza page for this course is here. All communication about this course is done over Piazza. This includes questions, discussions, announcements, as well as private messages. The self-signup code is "3150 rocks!".
This course discusses the principles in the design and implementation of operating systems (OS). Main topics include: OS concepts and abstractions, process management, memory management, file systems, and virtualization.
The course materials are partly based upon the following classic textbook:
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
- The book is free online: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
Assessment item | CSCI Weight |
---|---|
Assignments | 50% |
Lab quizzes* | 10% |
Final Exam | 40% |
*: To encourage tutorial participation, quiz or simple programming task will be conducted at the tutorials randomly. We will randomly pick 5 tutorials and perform this at the end of the tutorial. Each quiz/programming task is worth one mark. There will also be a midterm written quiz worth 5 marks; the date will be announced in a later time.
Click on the topic to access the slides, on the superscript to access the corresponding chapters in the textbook, and on the ► to watch the recording.
Midterm quiz will be held on Thur, Feb 23, during our lecture time.
Week | Wed Lecture | Thu Lecture | PDFs | Optional readings |
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1 | Intro, Arch support | Arch support | lec1, lec2 | |
2 | Processes4, 5 | Processes | lec3 | A fork() in the road The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System |
3 | Threads25, Synchronization 128 | Synchronization 1 | lec4, lec5 | |
4 | Sync 2: Condition Variables30 | Sync 3: Semaphore31 (►) | lec6, lec7 | The Little Book of Semaphores, Hierarchical ordering of sequential processes |
5 | Deadlock32 (►) | CPU Scheduling7, 8, 9 (►) | lec8, lec9 | |
6 | CPU Scheduling7, 8, 9 (►) | Midterm | ||
7 | Memory Management 113-16 (►) | MM 2: Paging18, 19, 20 (►) | lec10, lec11 | |
8 Mar 15-16 |
MM 2: Paging18, 19, 20 (►) | MM 3: Swapping21, 22 (►) | lec12 | |
9 Mar 22-23 |
I/O Devices, HDD36, 37 (►) | I/O Devices, HDD (►) | lec13 | |
10 Mar 29-30 |
A Simple FS39, 40, 41 (►) | LFS43 (►) | lec14, lec15 | |
11 Apr 12-13* |
SSD44 (►) | SSD (►) | lec16 | |
12 Apr 19-20 |
Virtualizationvmm (►) | Networking, Final Review (►) |
*: No class on Apr 6.
Assignment Classroom | Due | Contact TA |
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assignment one | 18:00:00 p.m., Mon, Feb 13th | Shaofeng |
assignment one grace token | 18:00:00 p.m., Tues, Feb 14th | Shaofeng |
assignment two | 18:00:00 p.m., Mon, Mar 13th | Xin |
assignment two grace token | 18:00:00 p.m., Tues, Mar 14th | Xin |
assignment three | 18:00:00 p.m., Mon, Apr 17th | Qin |
assignment three grace token | 18:00:00 p.m., Tues, Apr 18th | Qin |
assignment four | 18:00:00 p.m., Mon, Apr 17th | All three TAs |
assignment four grace token | 18:00:00 p.m., Tues, Apr 18th | All three TAs |
- Assignments:
- No late submission.
- Grace tokens: You have 2 grace tokens, each can be used to give you a 24-hr extension on one assignment. You can apply at most 1 grace token on each assignment at your own discretion. This gives you some flexibility to cope with your own schedule.
- According to the University’s regulation, every assignment must be accompanied by a signed declaration of originality; submissions without it will receive zero mark.
- The declaration form is available here.
- Lectures and tutorials:
- Be on time. Set your mobile device to vibration/silient mode.
- Feel free to ask questions and raise comments during the lecture, but we can only entertain short questions and discussions in-class.
- Longer and deeper discussion and questions can happen in tutorials.
- Follow University's regulations on COVID, including use of masks, hand sanitization, seating with social distance, etc.