Xiaolan Zhang: CISC3595 Operating System

Welcome to the Fall 2009 WWW homepage for CISC 3595: - Operating System

• Announcement:
  • Nov 2: Homework 5 due Nov 13, Friday
  • Nov 2: Program submission guideline.
  • Oct 29: Homework 4, due Tuesday Nov 10th
  • Oct 17: Homework 3 is due Monday Oct 19th, at noon
  • Oct 7: Homework 3 is updated to include Prob. 3.19 in Page 145 of textbook.
  • Homework 3 posted below, due Oct 16th. How project is graded?
  • Homework 2 posted below, due Oct 2nd
  • Lab assignment 1 due Sept 25th
  • Homework 1 posted below in the Schedule part, due Sept 15th.
  
  
• Instructor:
  • Xiaolan Zhang. (zhang@cis.fordham.edu)
  • Office hours: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 1:30-2:30pm in JMH 338
  
  
• Lectures:
  • Tuesday and Friday, 10-11:15am, JMH 138
  
  
• Course Information:
  • Syllabus
  
  
• Resources:
  • Full C tutorial including system calls.
  • C Tutorials on Pointers.
  • Full GDB manual for tracing and debugging C programs.
  • Broad overview of Operating Systems
  • Here is a good C/C++ reference that includes the standard C library
  • Here is a short introduction to TCP/IP.
  • Here is a good intro to threads.
  • General slides on computer architecture
  • Wikipedia link
  • Another short description on computer hardware
  • A good tutorial on memory caches.
  
  
• Schedule:

  Dec 15, Tuesday, 9:30am

  Date	Topics	Slides/Notes	Assignments
  Sept 4, Class 1/26	Introduction	ppt	Read Chapter 1 and resources on computer architecture/hardware
  Sept 8, Class 2/26	Operating System Structures	OS overview	Homework 1 Read chapter 2
  Sept 11, Class 3/26	Unix overview	Unix overview
  Sept 15, Class 4/26	Processes	slides on process	Lab Assignment 1
  Sept 18, Class 5/26
  Sept 22, Class 6/26	Threads	slides	Written homework 2
  Sept 25, Class 7/26	CPU Scheduling	slides
  Sept 29, Class 8/26
  Oct 2, Class 9/26	Interprocess Communications	slides	homework 3 posted
  Oct 6, Class 10/26
  Oct 9, Class 11/26	Review
  Oct 16, Class 12/26	Midterm
  Oct 20, Class 13/26	Process Synchronization	slides	Chapter 6
  Oct 23, Class 14/26
  Oct 27, Class 15/26
  Oct 30, Class 16/26	Deadlock	slides	Chapter 7
  Nov 3, Class 17/26
  Nov 6, Class 18/26	Lab class, JMH 330
  Nov 10, Class 19/26	Memory	slides
  Nov 13, Class 20/26
  Nov 17, Class 21/26	Lab class, JMH 331	Lab Assignment
  Nov 20, Class 22/26	Virtual Memory, File System Interface	slides
  Nov 24, Class 23/26	File System Implementation	slides
  Dec 1, Class 24/26	I/O Systems	slides
  Dec 4, Class 25/26	Protection and Security
  Dec 8, Class 26/26	Review
  Fianl Exam