COP 5615 Operating Systems

Last modified 2007.03.22

Contact Information

• Office: E346 CSE
• Phone: 352/392-1488/-1200 sec'y
• Fax: 352/392-1220

Syllabus

EDGE Students

Announcements

• Exam 1 is available from the TA today
• EXAM 2 - Ch 5-8 on Friday 4/27 3:00-5:00 in CSE-E107
• **** Special Lecture: PWC presents talk on security 4/24 ****
• Homework 8: 8.{2,5,7,8,11,12,14,16,19}
• Read Chapter 8 for 4/17/07
• Homework 7: 7.{1,2,3,7,10,14}
• Homework 6: 6.{2,3,6,10,12,13,14,15,20}
• Homework 5: 5.{1,3,4,6,10,11,12,16,23}
• EXAM 1 - Ch 1-4 on Wednesday 2/21 5:15-6:45 in CSE-E107
• Homework 3.8 and Ch. 4 review Thursday 2/15
• Email me solution to 3.8 by Thursday morning 2/15
• old exams
• EXAM 1 - Ch 1-4 on Wednesday 2/21 *** tentative
• Homework Review (Ch 1-3) on Tuesday 1/30 - be prepared!
• Homework 4b: 4.{15,17,21,22,23,24}
• Read Chapter 4 by Thursday 1/25 - take care with 4.5 and 4.6
• Homework 4a: 4.{1,3,6,7,9,10,11,12}
• Read through 4.3 by Tuesday 1/23
• Homework 3: 3.{1,2,6,8,10}
• Read Chapter 3 by Thursday 1/18 - carefully!
• Homework 2: 2.{2,3,5,9}
• Read Chapter 2 by Tuesday 1/16
• Homework 1:
• Read Chapter 1 by Thursday 1/11
• All reading and homework assignments refer to Chow & Johnson

• COP5615 class web page
• Dr. Nemo's COP5615 page
• Slides for Chow \& Johnson

Course Outline Topics (Chow and Johnson)

• 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
• Ch 2: Distributed System Concepts and Architectures (4 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, starting 9/12/06)
  • 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 starting approx 9/28)
  • Message Passing
    
  • Group Communication
    total 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
    • example of PCP
    • chain blocking
    • push-through blocking
• 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