Operating System Engineering

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Operating Systems	Lab 1 Out
2	PC Hardware and x86 Programming
3	Overview of Major Internals, System Call Interface	Lab 1 due one day after Lecture 3 Lab 2 Out
4	Virtual Memory
5	Interrupts, Exceptions
6	Multiprocessors and Locking
7	Processes and Switching	Lab 2 due one day after Lecture 7 Lab 3 Out
8	Sleep & Wakeup
9	File Systems	Lab 3 (part A) due one day after Lecture 9
10	Crash Recovery	Lab 3 (part B) due one day after Lecture 10 Lab 4 Out
11	File System Performance and Fast Crash Recovery
12	Project Introduction and Discussion	Lab 4 (part A) due one day after Lecture 12
13	OS Organization
14	In-class Hacking Session	Lab 4 (part B) due one day after Lecture 14
15	Project Conferences	Lab 4 (part C) due one day after Lecture 15 Lab 5 Out
16	Project Conferences (cont.)
17	Language / OS Co-design	Lab 5 due one day after Lecture 17
Quiz	Quiz (Open Book and Notes)
18	Scalable Locks	Initial Project Demo Due
19	Project Conferences
20	Project Conferences (cont.)
21	Lock-free Coordination
22	Virtual Machines
23	No lecture; work on final projects
24	Demos in class
25	Demos in class (cont.)