CSE 120: Principles of Operating Systems (Winter 2016)

Lecture and Discussion Times

Section A Lectures: Mon/Wed 5:00-6:20, CENTR 101
Section B Lectures: Mon/Wed 6:30-7:50, CENTR 214
Section A Discussion: Fri 9:00-9:50a, PCYNH 109
Section A Discussion: Fri 12:00-12:50, CENTR 212
Section B Discussion: Fri 1:00-1:50, CENTR 212

Instructor

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

Teaching Assistants

Wenjia Ouyang (weouyang)
Sridhar Srinivasasubramanian (s9sriniv)
Saurabh B Chandra (sbipinch)
Manindra Moharana (mmoharan)
Derrick E Smith (des003)

Tutors

Edward Wong (e4wong)
Arturo Andrade (asandrad)
Kyle Chan (klc014)
Kacy Espinoza (krespino)
Daniel Loza (dloza)
Ruiqing Qiu (rqiu)
Jianshen Wang (jiw066)
Mingshan Wang (miw034)

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News

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 user-mode UNIX-based operating system developed by the instructor
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 one day prior to that lecture's class.

Jan 4: Introduction
Jan 6: Processes
Jan 11: Time-Sharing
Jan 13: Scheduling
Jan 20: Synchronization
Jan 25: Synchronization cont'
Jan 27: Inter-Process Communication
Feb 1: Deadlock
Feb 3: Memory Management
Feb 8: Logical Memory
Feb 10: Midterm
Feb 17: Virtual Memory
Feb 22: File Systems
Feb 24: Input/Output System Feb 28: Protection & Security
Mar 2: Networks
Mar 7: Distributed Systems
Mar 9: Advanced Topics

Programming Assignments

Programming assignments will be posted when they become available.

Grading

30% Midterm Exam (Wed, Feb 10, in class *** NOTE CHANGE FROM FEB 8)
40% Final exam
- Section A: Mon, Mar 14, 7:00pm-10:00pm, York 2722 (CHANGED FROM Center 101)
- Section B: Wed, Mar 16, 7:00pm-10:00pm, Center 214
30% Programming assignments (four, each worth: 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%)

References

Lecture notes (will be made available via Piazza)
Recommended Textbooks
- Operating System Concepts, 9th Ed., by Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne; Wiley, 2013 (8th ed. is also ok)
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces Version 0.90, by R. Arpaci-Dusseau, A. Arpaci-Dusseau

Resources

Discussion board: Piazza