Advanced Operating Systems

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. Jeff Childs For help ONLY with projects... jchilds@mcs.kent.edu MSB 251, 672-4004 ext. 251 (voice mail ext. 464) Office hours = MWF 12-1pm, and by appt.
Syllabus & Announcements Syllabus (1/20/98) Updated Class Schedule (4/29/98) How to view the lectures How to view/print on a Mac or PC Easier PC setup	Miscellaneous Spring 1997 AOS web page "An Introduction to Programming with Threads", Andrew Birrell, DEC
Exams Exam 1 (3/4/98) Solution Mean = 90.6, Standard Deviation = 9.4 Exam 2 (4/8/98) Solution Mean = 91.4, Standard Deviation = 7.7 Final Exam (5/13/97) Solution Mean = 84.7, Standard Deviation = 11.0	Homework Assignments Homework 1 (due in class 2/11/98) Solution Homework 2 (due in class 2/25/98) Solution Homework 3 (due in class 4/1/98) Solution Homework 4 (due in class 4/29/98) Solution
Lecture Notes 1/21/98 Lecture 01 -- Introduction 1/26/98 Lecture 02 -- Distributed Systems 1/28/98 Lecture 03 -- Network Structures 2/2/98 Lecture 04 -- Network Communication 2/4/98 Lecture 05 -- Interproccess Communication 2/9/98 Lecture 06 -- Remote Procedure Calls 2/11/98 Lecture 07 -- Threads 2/16/98 Lecture 08 -- Distributed Shared Memory 2/18/98 Lecture 09 -- Synchronization (Review) 2/23/98 Lecture 10 -- Nachos 2/25/98 Lecture 11 -- Physical Clocks 3/2/98 Lecture 12 -- Logical Clocks 3/9/98 Lecture 13 -- Dist. Mutual Excl., Part I 3/11/98 Lecture 14 -- Dist. Mutual Excl., Part II 3/16/98 Lecture 15 -- DME Part III, Elections 3/18/98 No class -- please try to attend one of these two talks instead 3/30/98 Lecture 16 -- Dist. Deadlock Part I 4/1/98 Lecture 17 -- Dist. Deadlock Part II 4/6/98 Presenations on Project 1 10 minutes each from Kun Qiu, Wing Fai Ng, Haitian Yang, Ming Zhao, Yangming Zhu 4/13/98 Lecture 18 -- Atomic Transactions 4/15/98 Lecture 19 -- Concurrency Control 4/20/98 Lecture 20 -- Load Distribution 4/22/98 Lecture 21 -- Load Distr. Algorithms 4/27/98 Lecture 22 -- Distributed File Systems 4/29/98 Lecture 23 -- Dist. File Sys. Examples 5/4/98 Presentations on Project 2 10 minutes each from Amrish Lal, Junli Li, Chengwei Liu, Wing Fai Ng, and Kun Qiu 5/6/98 Presentations on Project 2 10 minutes each from Aarthi Rao, Damon Cody, and Robert Mellen Also: Class Evaluations, Discussion of Final 5/6/98 Lecture 24 -- Last Class	Project Information Project 1: (due via email on 3/18/98) Getting Started The assignment Error -- due on Friday 3/20, not 3/18! Frequently-asked questions Frequently-asked questions from S'97 (some are still appropriate; some are not) Project 2: (due via email on 4/24/98) The assignment Frequently-asked questions Nachos Information Overview paper, Tom Anderson, UC Berkeley "A Road Map Through Nachos", Thomas Narten, Duke Univ "Salsa -- An Operating Systems Tutorial", Archna Kalra, UMass Amherst "Nachos Networking Background" "Reading Nachos Source Code", Michael O'Donnell, U Chicago Nachos Home Page, UC Berkeley Debugging "A Quick Introduction to C++", Anderson/Christopher, UC Berkeley "Debugging with GDB", Stallman & Pesch GNU Debugger (gdb) reference card