CSE 120: Principles of Operating Systems (Fall 2012)

Lectures: Mon/Wed 5:00-6:20, SOLIS 104
Discussion: Fri 11:00-11:50, CENTR 214

Instructor

Joseph Pasquale (office hours: Wed 3:00-4:00 or by appt, EBU3B 3112)

Teaching Assistants

Kevin Webb (email: kcwebb -AT- cs.ucsd.edu)
Deepak Arulkannan (email: darulkan@cs.ucsd.edu)
Yi Jin (email: yij007@eng.ucsd.edu)
Rossana Motta

Tutors

Haronid Moncivais Miller
Benjamin Lei
Suman Malani
Gabriela Ponce

For office hours, see the Piazza Staff page.

Messages

The course is completed. Best wishes with your future studies at UCSD.

Description

This is an introductory course on the principles of operating systems. Topics include processes, scheduling, synchronization, memory management, virtual memory, file systems, I/O, protection, security, networking, and distributed systems. There is a significant systems programming component to the course, where students are required to design and implement some basic kernel functions (context switching, scheduling, synchronization) and a user-level thread package. The course is organized of the following:

Lectures: the lectures comprise the core material, and are based on the instructor's lecture notes that are provided to the students
Discussion: the discussion sections are led by the TA, and may be organized as discussions on specific topics or question/answer sessions
Readings: the readings in the textbook supplement the lecture notes
Labs: there are four lab programming assignments (in C) using Umix, a Unix-based user-mode operating system
Exams: there is a midterm exam and a final exam (both closed-book) covering the material in the lectures and the labs

Lectures

The notes for each lecture will be posted here one day prior to that lecture's class.

Oct 1: Introduction
Oct 3: Processes
Oct 8: The Kernel, Processes, and Threads
Oct 10: Scheduling
Oct 15: Synchronization
Oct 17: Interprocess Communication
Oct 22: Deadlock
Oct 24: Memory Management
Oct 29: Logical Memory
Oct 31: Virtual Memory
Nov 5: Midterm - no lecture
Nov 7: File System Design
Nov 14: File System Implementation
Nov 19: Input/Output System
Nov 21: Protection
Nov 26-28: Networks
Dec 3: Distributed Systems
Dec 5: Security

Programming Assignments

PA1: Context Switching, due Sunday, Oct 7 at 10:00pm
PA2: Scheduling, due Sunday, Oct 21 at 10:00pm
PA3: Synchronization, due Sunday Nov 11 at 10:00pm
PA4: Threads, due Sunday Dec 2 at 10:00pm
Late Policy: No programming assignments will be accepted beyond the deadline - no exceptions.

Grading

30% Midterm exam (Mon, Nov 5)
40% Final exam (Thu, Dec 13, 7:00pm-10:00pm, Solis 104)
30% Programming assignments (four, each worth progressively more points: 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%)

References

Lecture notes (available on this page, see above)
Textbook: Operating System Concepts, 8th Ed. Update, by Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne; Wiley, 2009, 2012 (2008 ed. is also ok)

Resources

Discussion board: Piazza
Grade postings: GradeSource