CSE 3146
Warren Lecture Hall 2207
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Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 8th Edition
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-470-12872-0 (other editions also acceptable) |
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Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 8th Edition
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-470-12872-0 (other editions also acceptable) |
This course covers the principles of operating systems. It emphasizes the basic concepts of OS kernel organization and structure, processes and threads, concurrency and synchronization, memory management, file systems, and communication. It is also a project course, providing essential experience in programming with concurrency, implementing and unmasking abstractions, working within an existing complex system, and collaborating with other students in a group effort.
The course is organized as a series of lectures by the instructor, reading, homework, project assignments, quizzes, and exams:
Homeworks are due at the beginning of class on the day specified. Homeworks are graded credit/no-credit based on whether you made an honest effort to answer the questions. Late homework will not be accepted. You must hand in a hardcopy of your homework; disagreements about the contents of emailed homeworks have caused too much grief in the past.
I encourage you to collaborate on the homeworks: You can learn a lot from your fellow students. However, there can be a fine line between collaboration and cheating. Collaboration consists of discussing problems with other students and independently writing your own answers to the problems based upon those discussions; as a rule of thumb, you should be able to discuss a homework problem in the library with others, go home, and then write up your answer to the problem on your own. Cheating consists of looking at other student's homeworks and copying the answers, looking at past homeworks and/or solutions from previous versions of the class, searching on the Web, etc.
The course has one tutorial project and three programming projects using the Nachos instructional operating system. You may work alone or in established pairs for each of the projects, and implementation approaches may be discussed across groups, but code cannot be shared across groups. The tutorial project is not graded; the remaining projects are each worth an equal portion of the project grade.
Projects must be turned in by 11:59PM on the day indicated. Late projects will not be accepted.
There will be a short quiz at the beginning of each class. Please be on time to be able to take the quiz. Missed quizzes may not be made up.
Your grade for the course will be based on your performance on the homeworks, midterm and final exams, and the three projects using the following weights:
However, you must get at least a 55% on the final to pass the class, regardless of your other scores.
Cheating: Do not cheat. All students are required to know and adhere to the UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship (near middle of the page). Failure to do so will result in consequences outlined in the UCSD Policy. The academic honesty guidelines outlined by Charles Elkan for CSE 130 apply to this course.
Please come talk with me about any questions or concerns. If you prefer, you may submit anonymous comments or questions with this feedback form.
The following table outlines the schedule for the course. We will update it as the quarter progresses. Please note the slides are from a previous quarter (courtesy of Geoff Voelker) and are provided for reference only.
E. W. Dijkstra, The Structure of the 'THE'-Multiprogramming System, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 5, May 1968, pp. 341-346.
(Additional historical background on semaphores in Wikipedia)
D. M. Ritchie and K. Thompson, The UNIX Time-Sharing System, The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 57, No. 6, July-August 1978, pp. 1905-1929.
C. A. R. Hoare, Monitors: An Operating System Structuring Concept, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 17, No. 10, October, 1974, pp. 549-557.
Andrew D. Birrell, An Introduction to Programming with Threads, DEC SRC Research Report 35, January 6, 1989.
Blaise Barney, POSIX Threads Programming, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.