Advanced Operating Systems

Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker walker@mcs.kent.edu MSB 351, (330) 672-9105 Office hours = afternoons 2-3pm, or by appt.	Teaching Assistant: to be determined...
Syllabus & Schedule Syllabus (1/13/03) Schedule (2/17/03)	Miscellaneous Prof. Nesterenko's fall 2002 AOS web page Prof. Nesterenko's spring 2002 AOS web page Prof. Nesterenko's fall 2001 AOS web page My spring 2001 AOS web page Prof. Nesterenko's fall 2000 AOS web page My spring 2000 AOS web page Prof. Nesterenko's fall 1999 AOS web page My spring 1999 AOS web page My spring 1998 AOS web page My spring 1997 AOS web page
Exams 2/19/03 Exam 1 -- Exam Solution Mean = 86.7, standard deviation = 5.9 3/19/03 Exam 2 -- Exam Solution Mean = 84.3, standard deviation = 10.3 5/5/03 Final Exam -- Exam Solution Mean = 88.8, standard deviation = 8.4	Homework Assignments Homework 1 -- Assignment (due in class 2/3/03) Solution Homework 2 -- Assignment (due in class 2/19/03) Solution Homework 3 -- Assignment (due in class 3/10/03) Solution Homework 4 -- Assignment (due in class 4/9/03) Solution Homework 5 -- Assignment (due in class 4/23/03) Solution
Lecture Notes 1/13/03 Lecture 01 -- Introduction 1/15/03 Class Cancelled 1/20/03 Class Cancelled (Martin Luther King Day) 1/22/03 Lecture 01 -- Distributed Systems (cont.) 1/27/03 Lecture 02 -- Distributed Systems 1/29/03 Lecture 03 -- Network Structures 2/3/03 Lecture 04 -- Network Communication 2/5/03 Lecture 05 -- Message Passing 2/10/03 Lecture 06 -- RPCs and Threads 2/12/03 Lecture 07 -- Physical Clocks 2/17/03 Class Cancelled (snow) 2/19/03 Exam 1 2/24/03 Lecture 08 -- Logical Clocks 2/26/03 Lecture 09 -- Dist. Mut. Exclusion Part I 3/3/03 Lecture 10 -- Dist. Mut. Exclusion Part II Prof. Nesterenko's Lecture on DME Part II 3/5/03 Lecture 11 -- Dist. Deadlock Part I Prof. Nesterenko's Lecture on DDL Part I	Lecture Notes (cont.) 3/10/03 Lecture 12 -- Dist. Deadlock Part II 3/12/03 Lecture 13 -- Atomic Transations 3/17/03 Lecture 14 -- Concurrency Control 3/19/03 Exam 2 Spring Break 3/31/03 Lecture 15 -- Election & Agreement 4/2/03 Lecture 16 -- Distrib. File Systems Part I 4/7/03 Lecture 17 -- Distrib. File Systems Part II 4/9/03 Lecture 18 -- Distributed Shared Memory 4/14/03 Lecture 19 -- Process Migration 4/16/03 Lecture 20 -- Load Distribution 4/21/03 Lecture 21 -- Clusters, High Availability Part I 4/23/03 Lecture 22 -- High Availability Part II, Scalability Prof. Nesterenko's Lecture on clusters, high availability, and scalability 4/28/03 Lecture 23 -- Parallel Systems Part I Part II 4/30/03 Lecture 24 -- Discussion of Final Exam