Spring 2023
Tuesday/Thursday, 6:00pm – 7:15pm
2207 Engineering Building III
Wolfware Course Web
Instructor:
- Office: EBII 3274
- Office hours: T/Th 5:00pm – 6:00pm or by Appointment
- Phone: (919) 515-7045
- E-mail: xgu AT ncsu.edu
Teaching Assistants/Graders:
Yuhang Lin
- Office: my Zoom
- Office hours: T/Th 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- E-mail: ylin34 AT ncsu.edu
Fogo Tunde-Onadele
- Office: EBII 1229B
- Office hours: M/W 4:00pm – 5:00pm
- E-mail: oatundeo AT ncsu.edu
Announcement:
- Please fill out the affidavit and return it by Thursday, 01/16/2023.
About the Course:
Textbook (There is no required text book. The exams are based on lectures).
- Operating System Concepts, tenth Edition (Main reference)
- Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 4/e (optional)
- Distributed Operating Systems (optional)
- Operating System Design: The XINU approach (optional)
- Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective (optional)
- Linux Kernel 2.4 Internals (reference)
- Understanding the Linux Kernel (reference)
Syllabus
Prerequisites
- CSC 246, CSC 314, Programming competence in C and Unix.
Message Board:
Format and evaluation:
A student’s performance in this course will be evaluated through homework assignments, quizzes and exams.
Programming assignments (40%)
Quizzes (5%)
Exams (55%, midterm: 20%, final: 35%)
Policy
Schedule:
The tentative schedule is as follows. We may change the schedule as needed, with good reasons.
Week |
Date |
Topics |
Assignments |
Handout |
| 1 | 1/10 | Introduction | intro.ppt | |
| 1/12 | Processes |
Due: 1/24, 11:59pm |
process.ppt | |
| 2 | 1/17 | Threads | thread.ppt | |
| 1/19 | Scheduling | scheduling.ppt | ||
| 3 | 1/24 | Scheduling |
Due: 2/10, 11:59pm |
|
| 1/26 | Synchronization | synchronization.ppt | ||
| 4 | 1/31 | Synchronization | ||
| 2/2 | Synchronization | |||
| 5 | 2/7 | Synchronization | ||
| 2/9 | Synchronization | deadlock.ppt | ||
| 6 | 2/14 | Deadlock |
Due: 3/17, 11:59pm |
|
| 2/16 | Wellness day; No class | |||
| 7 | 2/21 | Memory Management | memory.ppt | |
| 2/23 | Memory Management | vm.ppt | ||
| 8 | 2/28 | Memory Management | midterm-review.ppt | |
| 3/2 | In-class Midterm | |||
| 9 | 3/7 | Interrupt |
|
interrupt.ppt |
| 3/9 | Storage | PA3 slides.ppt | ||
| 10 | 3/14 | Spring Break; No class | ||
| 3/16 | Spring Break; No class | |||
| 11 | 3/21 | Storage | storage.ppt | |
| 3/23 | Cancelled; No class | |||
| 12 | 3/28 | File Systems | file-sys.ppt | |
| 3/30 | Multicore OS | multi-core.ppt | ||
| 13 | 4/4 | Virtual Machine | ||
| 4/6 | Virtual Machine | PA3 Mid Submission Due: 4/7, 11:59pm | vmm.ppt | |
| 14 | 4/11 | Data intensive computing | dic.ppt | |
| 4/13 | Data intensive computing | distributed.ppt | ||
| 15 | 4/18 | Cloud Computing | ||
| 4/20 | Final Review |
PA3 Final Due: 4/23, 11:59pm | final-review.pdf | |
| 16 | 4/25 | No class | ||
| 4/27 (Thursday) | Final Exam | 7:00 – 9:30pm Extra Credit Due: 5/1, 11:59pm |
Links:
Acknowledgement
This course includes materials provided by Dr. Vincent Freeh, Dr. Frank Mueller, Dr. Xiaosong Ma, and Dr. Xuxian Jiang.