COP 5615 Operating Systems

Instructor: Richard Newman

Last modified 2011.11.29

Contact Information

Office: E346 CSE
Phone: 352/450-3444/392-1200 sec'y
Fax: 352/392-1220
Email: nemo at cise dot ufl dot edu

Syllabus

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Quizzes

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Examinations

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Exam 2: Chapters 5-8 on Tuesday 2011.12.06 ****** starting at 9:00 am *******
I will be in the classroom at 8:30 on Tuesday before the exam to answer any last-minute questions.
HW5: 7.{1,4,7,10}, 8.{4,5,7,8,14} due 2011.12.01
HW4: 6.{1,2 (esp. w.r.t. DFS),5,9,10,12,13,14,15,19} due 2011.11.29
HW3: 5.{1,5,11,13,16,17} due 2011.10.20
solution to causal order mcast in Ch. 4 slides now posted
Quiz 3 Thursday 9/29 - Ch. 4
HW2: 4.{2,6,7,10,15,17,24} due 2011.09.29
Quiz 2 Tuesday 9/27 - Ch. 3-4
HW1: 2.{3,5,10,12}, 3.{1,3,9,11(first part only),16,20} due 2011.9.22
Quiz 2 Tuesday 9/20 - postponed
Project 1 released - see class website or Sakai.
No classes on Thursday 9/15 (makeups below)
Extra classes on Tuesday 9/6 and 9/13 at 8:30 in CSE-E107 (Studio A)
Quiz 1 on Tuesday 8/30/11: Chapter 1
All reading and homework assignments refer to Chow & Johnson
A proposed Schedule for Fall 2011 is available

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Course Outline Topics (Chow and Johnson)

Expected number of lectures per chapter are given below the chapter title.

CH 1: Background Review (3 Lectures)
- Virtual Machines
- Virtual I/O
- Virtual Memory
- Synchronization
- Communication
- Scheduling
- File systems
- Centralized Operating Systems
- Network Operating Systems
- Distributed Operating Systems
- Cooperating Autonomous Systems
- Peer-to-peer systems
- Service-oriented Architectures (SOAs)
Ch 2: Distributed System Concepts and Architectures (3 Lectures)
- Transparency and Service Concepts
- System and Network Architectures
- Queuing Theory
- Communication Networks: OSI and TCP/IP
- Design Issues
CH 3: Concurrent Processing and Programming Languages (8 Lectures plus review)
- Threads
- Process Representations and Models
- Client/Server Model
- Time Services - Physical and Logical Clocks
- Synchronization
- Object Model Resource Servers
- Concurrent Programming Languages
  - Notes on LINDA
  - LINDA barrier synch example
CH 4: Interprocess Communication and Coordination (8 Lectures plus review)
- Message Passing
- Group Communication
  total order multicast diagram causal order multicast diagram
- Remote Procedure Calls
- Transactions
- Name and Directory Services
- Distributed Mutual Exclusion
- Leader Election
EXAM 1
CH 5: Distributed Processing (4 Lectures)
- Multiprocessor Scheduling
- Load Sharing and Balancing
- Remote Execution and Process Migration
- Realtime Scheduling
CH 6: Distributed File Systems (5 Lectures plus review)
- Design and Implementation
- Sharing and Replication
- Concurrency Control
- Replication Management
CH 7: Distributed Shared Memory (3 Lectures)
- NUMA
- Coherency and Consistency Models
- Caches
- DSM
Distributed Computer Security (5 Lectures plus review)
- Security Basics
- DAC
- MAC
- Cryptography
- Distributed Authentication and Authorization
- PWC presentation
Distributed Algorithms and Case Studies

Course Assignments

Please refer to the COP5615 class web page for assignments.