Advanced Operating Systems

Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker walker@mcs.kent.edu MSB 351, 672-4004 ext. 351 Office hours = Tu 2-4pm, Th 2-3pm	Teaching Assistant: Mr. Wei Wu wewu@mcs.kent.edu MSB 140, 672-4004 ext. 140 Office hours = Tu Th 8:20-9:20pm, Fr 1:20-2:20pm
Syllabus & Announcements Syllabus/Schedule - 1/31/97 1/23/97 -- Room change to MSB 115 How to view the lectures How to view/print on a Mac or PC Easier PC setup	Miscellaneous "An Introduction to Programming with Threads", Andrew Birrell, DEC "War Stories from Andrew", Morris. "CMU's Andrew Project: A Retrospective", Borenstein.
Exams Midterm Exam (4/2/97) Solution Final Exam (5/12/97) Solution	Homework Assignments Homework 1 (due in class 3/12/97) Solution Homework 2 (due in class 4/16/97) Solution Homework 3 (due in class 5/07/97) Solution
Lecture Notes 1/22/97 Lecture 01 -- Introduction 1/27/97 Lecture 02 -- Intro to Distributed Systems 1/29/97 Lecture 03 -- Network Structures 2/03/97 Lecture 04 -- Network Communication 2/05/97 Lecture 05 -- Client-Server Model 2/10/97 Lecture 06 -- Remote Procedure Call 2/12/97 -- no class 2/17/97 Lecture 07 -- Threads (Review) (Nachos Intro) 2/19/97 Lecture 08 -- Physical Clocks 2/24/97 Lecture 09 -- Logical Clocks 2/26/97 Lecture 10 -- Synchronization (Review) 3/03/97 Lecture 11 -- Distrib. Mutual Exclusion 3/05/97 Lecture 12 -- Distrib. M.E., Elections 3/10/97 Lecture 13 -- Agreement 3/12/97 Lecture 14 -- Deadlock (Review) 3/17/97 Lecture 15 -- Distrib. Deadlock, Part I 3/19/97 Lecture 16 -- Distrib. Deadlock, Part II 3/24/97 - 3/28/97 -- Spring Break!! 3/31/97 Lecture 17 -- Atomic Transactions 4/07/97 Lecture -- Project 1 Student Presentations 4/09/97 Lecture -- More presentations, rest of L17 4/14/97 Lecture 18 -- Concurrency Control 4/16/97 Lecture 19 -- Load Distribution, Part I 4/21/97 Lecture 20 -- Load Distribution, Part II 4/23/97 Something possibly of interest... 4/23/97 Lecture 21 -- File Systems (Review) 4/28/97 Lecture 22 -- Distrib. File Sys., Part I 4/30/97 Lecture 23 -- Distrib. File Syst., Part II 5/05/97 Lecture -- Project 2 Student Presentations 5/07/97 Lecture -- Project 2 Student Presentations	Project Information Project 1: (due via email on 3/21/97) How to get an early start (updated 2/13) The assignment "Nachos Networking Background" Frequently-asked questions Project 2: (due via email on 5/2/97) The assignment Frequently-asked questions Nachos Information Overview paper, UC Berkeley "A Quick Introduction to C++", Christopher, UC Berkeley "A Road Map Through Nachos", Narten, Duke Univ "Reading Nachos Source Code", O'Donnell, U Chicago Nachos Home Page, UC Berkeley Debugging "Debugging with GDB", Stallman & Pesch GNU Debugger (gdb) reference card