CS 423, Spring 2016

Operating Systems Design

Tentative Schedule

Note: With the exception of exam dates (that are fixed), this schedule is tentative and subject to small changes. Please check for most recent version. The two exam dates are fixed. Please put them on your calendar and make sure you are available.

Part	Date	Lecture	Links	Comments
Intro	January 22^nd	Introduction and Logistics	Intro
	January 25^th	History and basic concepts	Review
Processes and Threads	January 27^th	The OS API: Syscalls	Syscalls
	January 29^th	“Virtualizing” the CPU: Context Switching	Context Switch H1 out
	February 1^st	Interrupting the Execution: Interrupts	Interrupts, H1 Due (2/6)
	February 3^rd	Interrupts continued
	February 5^th	Network I/O, Denial of Service
	February 8^th	Syscall & Interrupt Implementation Walkthrough	Walkthrough MP1 out (on compass)	Led by TA
	February 10^th	Scheduling	Scheduling
Locks and Synchronization	February 12^th	MP1 Q&A	MP1 Q&A	Led by TA
	February 15^th	Embedded systems and periodic tasks	Scheduling2
	February 17^th	Synchronization, Blocking and Priority Inversion
	February 19^th	Scheduler Implementation Walkthrough	Walkthrough	Led by TA
	February 22^nd	Energy-awareness, Multicore, and other Advanced Scheduling Topics	Energy MP1 Due MP2 Out (on compass)
	February 24^th	MP2 Q&A	MP2 Q&A	Led by TA
Virtual Memory	February 26^th	Virtual Memory	Memory
	February 29^th	Virtual Memory
	March 2^nd	Virtual Memory Implementation Walkthrough	Walkthrough	Led by TA
	March 4^th	Midterm Review	Review
	March 7^th	Midterm
Virtualization	March 9^th	Introduction to Virtualization	Intro MP2 Due Midterm
	March 11^th	Virtual Machines (Emulation and Binary Translation)	Emulation
	March 14^th	Process Virtual Machines	VMs MP3 Out
	March 16^th	VM Implementation Walkthrough	Walkthrough	Led by TA
	March 18^th	MP3 Q&A	MP3 Q&A	Led by TA
Spring Break
File Systems	March 28^th	File Systems	File systems
	March 30^th	File Systems
Distributed Computing Issues	April 1^st	Storage	No slides (see video)
	April 4^th	File System Implementation Walkthrough	Walkthrough	Led by TA
	April 6^th	Map/Reduce	MP3 due MP4 out	Invited Talk
	April 8^th	Distributed File Systems	Distributed FS
	April 11^th	Case Study: NFS	Google
	April 13^th	MP4 Q&A	MP4 Q&A	Led by TA
	April 15^th	Hadoop Implementation walkthrough	Hadoop	Led by TA
	April 18^th	Case Study: The Google File System	Google
Advanced Topics	April 20^th	Student Led Topic #1: Android OS	Android OS	Mohammad Alian, Shuomeng Guang, Bo Teng
	April 22^nd	Security	Security
	April 25^th	Security	Security2 MP4 due HW2 out
	April 27^th	Student Led Topic #2: Containers and Virtualization a) OS-level Virtualization b) FROM LXC TO DOCKER: Containers Get Portable	Virtualization	Vikas Jain, Vibha Goyal, Nitin Kundapur Bhat
			Docker	Hongchuan Li, Xuewei Zhang, Xiang Li
	April 29^th	Student Led Topic #3: Bios and Bootloader	Bios	Guoyong Li Jinwen Xu
	May 2^nd	Review	Review HW2 due
	May 4^th	Final