COP4600 - Operating Systems

Fall 2013

Class description: Operating systems structure. Process management. Process scheduling. Memory Management. Virtual memory. I/O system. Performance Evaluation.
Instructor: Dr. Lotzi Bölöni
Graders: GTA: Ramya Pradhan Ramya.pradhan@knights.ucf.edu
UGTA: Gunavardhan Darimidi vardhan1991@gmail.com
Office: HEC - 319
Phone: (407) 243-8256 (on last resort)
E-mail: lboloni@eecs.ucf.edu (preferred means of communication)
Web Site: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~lboloni/Teaching/COP4600_Fall2013/index.html
The assignments and the other announcements will be posted on the course web site
Classroom: HPA 0125 (Health and Public Affairs building)
Class Hours: Monday, Wednesday 4:30pm - 5:45pm
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Pre-requisites: Some programming experience, general familiarity with computer organization and operating systems (as a user).
Textbook: Operating Systems Concepts Essentials, 2011 edition by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin and Greg Gagne
Grading: Homeworks: 25%, Quizzes: 5%
Midterm 1: 20%, Midterm 2: 20%, Final: 30%. Grading formula:
        HW = (HW1 + HW2 + HW3 + ...+ HWn) / n
        Q = (Q1 + ... + Qn) / n
        Overall = 0.25 * HW + 0.05 * Q + 0.2 * M1 + 0.2 * M2 + 0.3 * F
        
HW2, M2 etc are exactly the number you got, so if you got 112, that is what you put in.
Standard 90/80/70/60 scale will be used for final grades (curved if necessary).
All the exams are open book, open notes.
Integrity: All the quizzes, homeworks, and exams are individual work.
The division, college, and University are committed to honesty and integrity in all academic matters. We do not tolerate academic misconduct by students in any form, including cheating, plagiarism and commercial use of academic materials. Please consult the Golden Rule Handbook for the procedures which will be applied.

Syllabus

Date
Topic
Lecture Notes, Readings, Homeworks
Aug 19.
Class organization
Introduction: a history of operating systems
[slides] Introduction to operating systems
Aug. 21
-introduction (cont'd)

Aug. 26
Operating system structures
[slides] Operating system structures
Aug. 28
-OS structures (cont'd)

Sep. 2
Labor day

Sep. 4
Processes
[slides] Processes
Sep. 9


Sep. 11


Sep. 16
Threads [sample] the C file written in class
[slides] Threads
[homework] Homework 1
[sample] How to tokenize a string for a shell.
[reading] Fork, exec, system
[reading] Very gentle intro to the Linux command line
[reading] How to compile a C/C++ program from the command line

Sep. 18
-threads (cont'd)

Sep. 23
Processor scheduling
[slides] Processor scheduling
[reading] Josh Aas: Understanding the Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU Scheduler
Sep. 25
Process synchronization
[slides] Process synchronization
Sep. 30
-process synchronization (cont'd)
[sample] the Java files written in the class (semaphore, synchronized keyword)

Oct. 2
Midterm exam 1: Introduction and processes

Oct. 7


Oct. 9


Oct. 14
Main memory
[slides] Main memory
Oct. 16

-main memory (cont'd)
Oct. 21
Virtual memory
[slides] Virtual memory
[slides] Additional slides about page replacement algorithms

Oct. 23
-Virtual memory (cont'd)

Oct. 28
Midterm exam 2 - Memory

Oct. 30
File systems
[slides] File systems
Nov. 4
-file systems (cont'd)

Nov. 6
File system implementation
[slides] File system implementation

Nov. 11
Veterans day

Nov. 13


Nov. 18
Mass storage systems [slides] Mass storage systems
[homework] Homework 2
[code] Starting code for HW2.

Nov. 20
Protection
[slides] Protection
Nov. 25
Case study: Microsoft Windows 7 / Windows 8
[slides] Case study: Windows
Nov. 27
Case study: Linux
[slides] Case study: Linux
Dec. 2
Case study: Android OS


Monday, December 09, 4:00 - 6:50pm
Final exam