CMPU 334 - Operating Systems

Fall 2008

Contents:

• Description
• Objectives
• Topics
• Prerequisite
• Text Book
• Course Requirements
• Definition of Academic Integrity
• Students with Disabilities
• Lecture Slides

Description

 

This course is a comprehensive treatment of the basic problems encountered in operating systems and a study of known solutions to those problems. General areas of study include management of the processor, storage and I/O resources, parallelism and operating system structure.

Objectives

At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Recognize those operating system problems which have been identified and studied.
• Use accepted operating system terminology
• Classify specific features of an existing operating system by general design concept

Topics

• Review of basic computer architecture
• Evolution of operating systems
• Concurrent processes
• Interprocess communication
• Processor allocation
• Deadlocks
• Memory management
• Virtual memory
• Virtual machines
• Disk scheduling
• File systems
• Protection and security
• Distributed systems
• Advanced topics

Prerequisite

Computer Organization (CMPU 224) or permission of the instructor

Text Book

Operating Systems Concepts - Seventh Edition by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, John Wiley and Sons, 2005, ISBN 0-471-69466-5

Course Requirements

Homework	20%
Project	25%
Hour exams (2)	25%
Final exam	30%

 

 

• All exams are open book/notes.
• The hour exams will be given approximately 1/3 and 2/3 of the way through the semester.
• The final will be "regularly scheduled".
• All exams are "cumulative".
• The project can be either a paper or a programming project approved by the instructor.

Definition of Academic Integrity

Students must do their own work. Any collaboration on projects or homework must have prior approval of the instructor.

Students with Disabilities

Academic accommodations are available for students with disabilities who are registered with the Office of Disability and Support Services. Students in need of disability accommodations should schedule an appointment with me early in the semester to discuss any accommodations for this course which have been approved by the Office of Disability and Support Services, as indicated in your DSS accommodation letter.

Lecture Slides