School of Computer Science

COP 5611: Operating Systems Design Principles

Spring 2005

Instructor: Prof. Euripides Montagne
Office: CSB 239 Email: eurip@cs.ucf.edu
Tel: 823-2684
TTH 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

GTA: Xingbo Gao
CC1 203, xbgao@cs.ucf.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Announcements

• 4/17/05: Please send your presentation slides to the TA by the Midnight April 17th if you haven't done so. Penalties as much as 50% off would apply if the slides are not received by the indicated data. Refer to Presentation Slides to check the latest posts.
• 4/14/05: Check grades for assignment #2.
• 4/2/05: Download OBJ1.c and OBJ2.c. Now you only need to implement objective 3 and 4.
• 4/1/05: IMPORTANT: Check to see the status of homework #2 submission. Contact the TA for any question.
• 3/30/05: Project due at midnight (11:59pm) Sunday April 17th. You only need to implement the objective 1 through objective 4.
• 3/22/05: Presentation Slides posted as well. If you have done your presentation, please send your slides to xbgao@cs.ucf.edu.
• 3/21/05: homework #2 (in pdf) posted. See the homeworks section.
• 2/24/05: Grades for homework #1 is posted.
• 2/15/05: Click here to see the latest presentation schedule (in html).
• 2/8/05: suggested reading list was added.
• 1/26/05: homework #1 (in word and pdf) posted. See the homeworks section.
• 1/25/05: notes on processes management (in ppt and pdf) (draft) posted.
• 1/25/05: notes on interrupt handling (in ppt) posted.
• 1/18/05: notes on interrupt handling (in pdf) are under the lecture section.
• 1/13/05: syllabus is posted.

Syllabus: click here (in pdf)

Required Books:

• A. Silberschatz , P. Galvin, and G. Gagne, "operating System Concepts" John Wiley & Sons, 7th Edition, 2005.
• John Lions "Lions' Commentary on Unix 6th edition with source code". ISBN 1-57398-013-7

Other Recommended Books:

• Edward D. Lazowska, John Zahorjan, G. Scott Graham, Kenneth C. Sevcik, "Quantitative System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models", Prentice-Hall, 1984. Online version at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/qsp/
• D. Mensace and V. Almeida, "Capacity Planning for Web Performance", Prentice Hall, 1998.
• H. Levy, "Capability-Based Computer Systems", Digital Press, 1984. Online version at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/capabook/

Lecture Notes

• 1/25/05: notes on processes management (in ppt), (pdf version) (draft)
• 1/25/05: notes on interrupt handling (in ppt)
• 1/18/05: notes on interrupt handling (in pdf)

Presentation Slides

• Christine Edgmon-Sirkhan and O'Connor Mathew: ATLAS (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Yi Ma and Hongliang Gao: Stack mechanism B5000 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Slobodan Stipic and Martin Dimitrov: THE (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Luke Levesque: NMS (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Scott Roffman and Chuck Ahern: MULTICS (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Vikas S Tambde: MATH (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Arun Krishnamurthy: Micro-Kernels (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Shufang Wu: Exokernels (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Hao Cheng and Alex Aved: Lions Chapter 5 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Wade Spires: Lions Chapter 6 and 7 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Aasavari Bhave and Manjula Babladi: Lions Chapter 9 and 10 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Adam Schwarz and Stuart Hostler: Lions Chapter 8 and 11 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Dahai Guo and Hua Zhang: Lions Chapter 12 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Saad Ali and Fahd Rafi: Lions Chapter 13 and 21 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Mikel Rodriguez and Rupesh Jain: Lions Chapter 14 and 15 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Pavel Babenko and Michael Buchoff: Lions Chapter 16 and 17 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Sean Mondesire and Subramanian Subramanian: FFS (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Gautami Shihatti and Anuirban Bag: Lions Chapters 18 &19 & UNIX paper (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Mohamed Saad Laassel and Alex Katchourine: HYDRA (PowerPoint, PDF)
• Christian Diercks and Rajarshi Chakraborty: LogFile (PowerPoint, PDF)

Suggested Reading List

1. 2/8/05: Chaper 3: Fundamental Laws. The book by Lazowska et al.
2. 2/8/05: Paper: The Operational Analysis of Queueing Network Models

Project Information

• Project Description (Word, PDF)
• Data Structures of OS Simulator
  • Major Data Structure 1
  • Major Data Structure 2
  • Major Data Structure 3
  • Minor Data Structure
  • Process Management
  • IO Management
  • Memory Management
• Project Readme File (steps to download relavant softwares) (Word, PDF)
• Project Presentations
  • Objective 1 (PPT, PDF)
  • Objective 2 (PPT, PDF)
  • Objective 3 (PPT, PDF)
  • Objective 4 (PPT, PDF)
• Project Directions
  • Objective 1
  • Objective 2
  • Objective 3
  • Objective 4

Homeworks

• 1/26/05: homework #1 (in word), (pdf version) (due Feb. 3rd)
• 3/21/05: homework #2 (in pdf) (due March 29th)

Resource Links

• BACI Homepage: http://www.mines.edu/fs_home/tcamp/baci/. Use BACI to obtain "hands-on" experience with concurrent programs.

Updated on Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Send comments or questions to xbgao@cs.ucf.edu