• Syllabus & Course Description
• My Home Page with office hours etc.

• 01/21: Introduction
• 01/24-01/28: Hardware Support
• 01/31-02/07: Process Management
• 02/11-02/18: Process Scheduling
• 02/21 - Lab Period
• 02/25&03/03: Threads
  
  
• 02/28 - Midterm Exam #1
  • covers topics up to and including Process Scheduling
  • A practice exam is available. Note, however, that this exam was given as a take-home whereas our exam will be in-class, so the length and difficulty of the questions is not necessarily comparable.
  
  
• 03/06&03/17-03/20: Thread Synchronization
• 03/24-04/03: File Systems
  
  
• 04/10 - Midterm Exam #2
  • covers Threads, Thread Synchronization, and File Systems
  • A practice exam is available. Note, however, that this exam was given as a take-home whereas our exam will be in-class, so the length and difficulty of the questions is not necessarily comparable. Also, the practice exam does not contain questions on the "Threads" topic, whereas the real exam will.
  
  
  
• 04/07-04/21: Memory Management
• 04/24 - Security
  
  
• 04/28 - Presentations
• 05/01 - Presentations
  
  
• 5/6 - Final Exam (2:00 pm)

• the Linux Cross Reference
• an elegant experiment using scheduling priorities (scroll down to "Priority Control")
• An experiment with two list implementations, related to project 2
• Code for playing with memory management

• Veronda -- Tolerating Byzantine Faults in Transaction Processing Systems using Commit Barrier Scheduling -- 4/28
• Soderberg-Rivkin -- PeerReview -- 4/28
• Rast and Zeigler -- Bouncer -- 4/28
• McArdle -- ??? -- 5/1
• Lang and Maffey -- DejaView -- 5/1
• Bilali and Zhou -- iComment -- 5/1

Presentations should be 15 minutes in length, with an additional 5 minutes for questions and discussion at the end. You may present your project using any combination of whiteboard and slides. A maximum of 12 slides are permitted. Text slides may have no more than 70 words; slides containing any kind of graph or figure may have no more than 20 words. The objective of the presentation is to explain the main idea behind the paper you researched, including a summary of any necessary background material. For full credit, you should also offer some critical insight into the paper's research, perhaps suggesting something the authors could or should have done differently. As with any other piece of work, you must acknowledge any content that you copy or adapt: this applies especially to any slides you copy from the authors' presentations on the SOSP website. If you are working in a team, you may divide the presentation task in any way you want.

Presentations will be graded on both content (70%) and presentation style (30%). Please submit an electronic copy of any slides to me by e-mail before delivering your presentation.