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Jan 7 First day craziness Silbershatz: Chapter 1 (skim); Chapter 2; Chapter 3 (Sections 1-3). Project 0 out Homework #1: form project teams
Jan 9 Just what is an OS? Multiprograming. slides
Jan 11 OS Protection ( slides )
Jan 14 Hardware trends: How is hardware evolving, and how does this alter the design of systems? (slides)

Andrew Birrell: An Introduction to Programming with Threads (C# version or Modula 2 version);

also: An introduction to Programming with Java Threads

  Homework 1 in
Jan 16 Threads: what is a thread? How is it different than a process? What problems do threads solve? Which problems do they create? ( slides ) Project 0 in; project 1 out Out: Homework #2 threads
Jan 18 More on thread safety ( slides )
AspectRatio.java , thread-safe version
Jan 21 No class
Jan 23 Condition variables and the producer/consumer pattern ( slides ) Silbershatz chapter 7  
Jan 24   Scheduling (slides).  Bounded buffers: A simple solution, a more sophisticated solution            
Jan 25 Deadlock: How do we prevent threaded programs from “getting stuck ( slides, BufferPool.java) ”? Project 1 in, Project 2 out

Homework 2 in

Homework 3 out

Jan 28 Project 2 Overview Silbershatz chapter 5, skip 5.7
Jan 30 Thread implementation: How does the OS / runtime implement threads and synchronization primitives (slides)
Feb 1 Alternatives to lock-based synchronization ( slides)
VisibilityExample.java
ConcurrentStack.java
Feb 4 Memory management intro ( slides) Silbershatz: Chapters 8, 9
Feb 6 Paging ( slides) Project 2 in Homework 3 in
Feb 8 Virtual memory ( slides)
Feb 11 Midterm Silbershatz: Chapters 11,12
Feb 13 Disks and storage systems( slides) Project #3 out: virtual memory
Feb 15 File system intro ( slides)
Feb 18 No class   Silbershatz: Chapters 11,12    
Feb 20   File system performance( slides)        
Feb 22 The page cache, memory mapping, and pipes ( slides )       Project #4 out: file systems Homework #4 in
Homework #5 out
                 
Feb 25 Distributed systems ( slides) Silbershatz: Chapter 16 Project 3 in
Feb 27 Service-oriented architectures: How do we construct large distributed systems that get work done? (slides)  
Feb 29   Remote procedure calls: How do we implement SOAs? (slides)    
                 
Mar 3 Security intro: What is “security”, and how do we go about achieving it? (slides) Silbershatz: Chapter 15 (skim 14 if necessary) Homework #5 in
Mar 5 Buffer overflow attacks. No slides . In class examples: ss1.c, ss2.c, ss3.c, ss4.c,
Mar 7
Mar 10 Virtual machine monitors (slides)
Mar 12 Wrap up VMMs; para-virtualization. no slides Project #4 in
Mar 14 Review