CS370: System Architecture & Software [Fall 2012]

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Schedule

Last updated on Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:38 AM
Instructor		Lecture Coordinates
	Shrideep Pallickara Office: Room 346, CS Building Office Hours: 9:15-11:15 AM Friday E-mail: shrideep {aT} cs.colostate.edu (with the obvious change) Tel: 970.492.4209		TTH (2:00 -3:15 PM) Computer Science Building, Room-130 GTA:Chengyu Fan Office Hours in CSB 120: Wedneday (1:00-3:00 PM) & Friday (9:00-10:00 AM) E-mail: chengyu {aT} cs.colostate.edu

Key to Notation
Readings will be from the Operating Systems Concepts book by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne 8th (7th) edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-470-12872-5. [SCG]

Additional Useful References
(1) Andrew S Tanenbaum. Modern Operating Systems. 3rd Edition, 2007. Prentice Hall.
ISBN: 0136006639/978-0136006633. [AT]
(2) Kay Robbins & Steve Robbins. Unix Systems Programming, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-042411-2. [RR]
(3) C Programming Language (2nd Edition). Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.
Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0131103628/978-0131103627
(4) Concurrent Programming in Java(TM): Design Principles and Pattern (2nd Edition).
Doug Lea. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0201310090/978-0201310092.

Week	Date	Topic	Assignments	Readings
1	Aug 20-24	Introduction Lecture 1 (8/21) Lecture 2 (8/23)	HW0 8/25	Ch {1,2} [SGG] Ch {1} [RR] Ch {1} [AT]
2	Aug 27-31	Processes Lecture 3 (8/28) Lecture 4 (8/30) Help Session 1	HW1 8/28	Ch {3} [SGG] Ch {2} [AT] Ch {2, 3} [RR]
3	Sep 03-07	Inter Process Communications Lecture 5 (9/4) Lecture 6 (9/6)	HW0 due 9/5 HW2 9/7 Term-Paper (TP) 9/7	Ch {3} [SGG] Ch {2} [AT]
4	Sep 10-14	Threads Lecture 7 (9/11) Lecture 8 (9/13) Help Session 2 (9/14)		Ch {4} [SCG] Ch {2} [AT] Ch {12} [RR]
5	Sep 17-21	CPU Scheduling Lecture 9 (9/18) Lecture 10 (9/20)	HW1 due 9/19 Quiz-1 9/20	Ch {5} [SCG] Ch {2} [AT]
6	Sep 24-28	Lecture 11(9/25) Process Synchronization Lecture 12 (9/27)	HW3 9/25 HW2 due 9/26	Ch {5, 6} [SCG] Ch {4} [RR]
7	Oct 01-05	Lecture 13 (10/02) Lecture 14 (10/04)		Ch {6}[SCG] Ch {4} [AT]
8	Oct 08-12	Midterm (10/09) Atomic Transactions Lecture 16 (10/11)	HW3 due 10/10	Ch {6}[SCG] Ch {4} [AT]
9	Oct 15-19	Deadlocks Lecture 17 (10/16) Lecture 18 (10/18)		Ch {7} [SCG] Ch {6} [AT]
10	Oct 22-26	Lecture 19(10/23) Memory Management Lecture 20 (10/25) Help Session 4 (10/26)	HW4 10/22	Ch {7, 8} [SCG] Ch {5,6} [RR] Ch {3} [AT]
11	Oct 29-Nov 02	Lecture 21 (10/30) Lecture 22 (11/01)	TP-D1 due 10/31	Ch {8} [SCG] Ch {3} [AT]
12	Nov 05-09	Lecture 23 (11/06) Virtual Memory Lecture 24 (11/08)	Quiz-2 11/06	Ch {9} [SCG] Ch {3} [AT]
13	Nov 12-16	Lecture 25 (11/13) Lecture 26 (11/15)	HW4 due 11/14	Ch {9, 10} [SCG] Ch {4} [AT]
Nov 19-23: Fall Break
14	Nov 26-30	File Systems Lecture 27 (11/27) Lecture 28 (11/29)	TP-D2 due 11/28 TP-D3 due 11/30	Ch {10, 11} [SCG] Ch {5} [AT]
15	Dec 03-07	Mass Storage & Disk Scheduling Lecture 29 (12/4) Lecture 30 (12/6)		Ch {11, 12} [SCG]
Dec 13: Final Computer Science Building (Room 130) 2:00 - 4:00 pm Dec 17: Final Grades will be posted