CSE 120: Principles of Operating Systems (Winter 2014)

Lecture and Discussion Times

Lectures
- Section A: Mon/Wed 5:00-6:20, CENTR 109
- Section B: Mon/Wed 6:30-7:50, CENTR 109
Discussion
- Section A: Fri 11:00-11:50, CSB 002
- Section B: Fri 1:00-1:50, CENTR 113 (Note change from CSB 002)

Instructor

Joseph Pasquale

Teaching Assistants

Hongpeng Wang (how015 ** THE-AT-SIGN ** eng.ucsd.eduXX)
John Chau (joc102 ** THE-AT-SIGN ** ucsd.edu)
Vidya Kirupanidhi (vkirupan ** THE-AT-SIGN ** eng.ucsd.eduXX)
Emma Zhang (xiz041 ** THE-AT-SIGN ** eng.ucsd.eduXX)

Tutors

Benjamin Lei (blei ** THE-AT-SIGN ** ucsd.eduXX)
Andrew Hu (khuzheng ** THE-AT-SIGN ** ucsd.eduXX)
Jon Larson (j1larson ** THE-AT-SIGN ** ucsd.eduXX)
Angie Nguyen (ann045 ** THE-AT-SIGN ** ucsd.eduXX)
Peter Welander (pwelande ** THE-AT-SIGN ** ucsd.eduXX)
Yinde Zhang (yiz127 ** THE-AT-SIGN ** eng.ucsd.eduXX)

Messages

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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

Prerequisites: CSE 30, and CSE 101 or Math 188, and CSE 70 or CSE 110.

Lectures

The notes for each lecture will be posted the evening (generally no later than 9pm) prior to the day of that lecture.

Jan 6: Introduction
Jan 8: Processes and Context-Switching
Jan 13: Time-Sharing and Threads
Jan 15: Scheduling
Jan 22: Synchronization
Jan 27: Inter-Process Communication
Jan 29: Deadlock
Feb 3: Memory Management
Feb 5: Logical Memory
Feb 10: Midterm - no lecture
Feb 12: Virtual Memory
Feb 19, 24: File System
Feb 26: Input/Output System
Mar 3: Protection and Security
Mar 5, 10: Networks
Mar 10, 12: Distributed Systems
Mar 12: Review

Programming Assignments

PA1: Context Switching
PA2: Scheduling
PA3: Synchronization
PA4: Threads

Grading

30% Midterm exam (Feb 10)
40% Final exam
30% Programming assignments (four, each worth: 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%)

References

Lecture notes (available on this page, see above)
Textbook: Operating System Concepts, 9th Ed., by Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne; Wiley, 2013 (8th ed. is also ok)