Advanced Operating Systems

Spring 2000
CS 6/73201

Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker

    walker@mcs.kent.edu
    MSB 351, 672-4004 ext. 351
    Office hours = Tu Th 1-3pm, and by appt.

Teaching Assistant: Mr. Ziming Sun

    For help ONLY with projects...
    zsun@mcs.kent.edu
    MSB 152, 672-4004 ext. 152
    Office hours = Tu 4:30-5:30, Th 11am-noon,
    and by appt.

Syllabus & Schedule

  • Syllabus (1/18/00) ps pdf
  • Schedule (5/10/00) ps pdf

Miscellaneous

Exams

  • 2/16/00 Exam 1 ps pdf
    Solution ps pdf
    Mean = 87.1, standard deviation = 10.8
  • 3/15/00 Exam 2 ps pdf
    Solution ps pdf
    Mean = 82.4, standard deviation = 17.2
  • 5/10/00 Final Exam ps pdf
    Solution ps pdf
    Mean = 84.2, standard deviation = 13.7

Debugging

Lecture Notes

  • 1/19/00 Lecture 01 -- Introduction ps pdf
  • 1/24/00 Lecture 02 -- Distributed Systems ps pdf
  • 1/26/00 Lecture 03 -- Network Structures ps pdf
  • 1/31/00 Lecture 04 -- Network Communication ps pdf
  • 2/2/00 Lecture 05 -- Client/Server and Message Passing ps pdf
  • 2/7/00 Lecture 06 -- Remote Procedure Calls ps pdf
  • 2/9/00 Lecture 07 -- Threads ps pdf
  • 2/14/00 Lecture 08 -- Distributed Shared Memory ps pdf
  • 2/16/00 -- Exam 1
  • 2/21/00 Lecture 09 -- Nachos Overview ps pdf
  • 2/23/00 Lecture 10 -- Synchronization Review ps pdf
  • 2/28/00 Lecture 11 -- Physical Clocks ps pdf
  • 3/1/00 Lecture 12 -- Logical Clocks ps pdf
  • 3/6/00 Lecture 13 -- Distrib. Mut. Exclusion, Part I ps pdf
  • 3/8/00 Lecture 14 -- Distrib. Mut. Exclusion, Part II ps pdf
  • 3/13/00 Lecture 15 -- Agreement ps pdf
  • 3/27/00 Lecture 16 -- Distrib. Deadlock, Part I ps pdf
  • 3/29/00 Lecture 17 -- Distrib. Deadlock, Part II ps pdf
  • 4/3/00 Lecture 18 -- Atomic Transactions ps pdf
  • 4/5/00 Lecture 19 -- Concurrency Control ps pdf
  • 4/10/00 Lecture 20 -- Process Migration ps pdf
  • 4/12/00 Lecture 21 -- Load Distribution ps pdf
  • 4/17/00 Lecture 22 -- Distrib. File Systems, Part I ps pdf
  • 4/19/00 Lecture 23 -- Distrib. File Systems, Part II ps pdf
  • 4/24/00 Lecture 24 -- Security ps pdf
  • 4/26/00 Lecture 25 -- Clusters ps pdf
  • 5/1/00 Lecture 26 -- Discussion of Final Exam

Project Information

  • Project 1: (due via email on 3/10/00)
  • Project 2: (due via email on 4/21/00)

Nachos Information