CSE 451, Spring 2000

• 6/3 - Here are some exams from Berkeley's OS class. Some of them have solutions as well.
• 5/26 - A "good" version of the project is here thanks to the lazy rats of ineptitude.
• 5/26 - Quiz solutions are posted here.
• 5/24 - Don't forget - Quiz Thursday in section.
• 5/24 - HW3 solutions are posted.
• 5/15 - Here is the importance of the readings for chapters 12 and 13.
• 5/14 - I would recommend going to the ACM Intermediate UNIX Tutorial in Sieg 329 on Thursday from 6-7. They will be talking about many things including CVS and GDB.
• 5/13 - Project 3 has been posted.
• 5/11 - Quiz 2 will likely be in section during the 9th week (the 25th). Project 3 will be posted tomorrow and will be due on Friday the 3rd of June.
• 5/11 - Homework 3 has been posted.
• 4/28 - New makefile for your test directory here.
• 4/28 - Quiz solutions are posted here.
• 4/27 - Project 2 has been posted.
• 4/17 - Please read Chapter 7 about deadlocks for this week. And a heads up that next week, there will be a quiz in discussion sections.
• 4/13 - Project proposals are now due Monday April 17th by noon since synchronization hasn't really been covered in lecture yet. The project deadline has also been extended to the 11:59pm on the 23rd.
• 4/10 - Please e-mail me the design reviews by Friday April 14th at noon. Information is here
• 4/7 - Professor Kimura forgot to mention the reading for Monday is chapter 5, and for Wednesday, chapter 6.
• 4/7 - Project 1 has been posted.
• 4/7 - If you can't figure out what problem 4 on homework 2 is asking, do this problem instead: Problem 4 replacement.
• 4/3 - I forgot to post the 1st homework last week. It is relatively simple and you should have no problem finishing it by Wednesday. (It was handed out last week in section.)
• 3/28 - The text for the class is Silberschatz and Galvin, Operating System Concepts, 5th ed. 1998.
• 3/27 - Welcome to CSE 451. Start signing up for the class mailing list after 1am on Tuesday the 28th. Do it in the typical majordomo@cs style (write a message to majordomo@cs.washington.edu with "subscribe cse451" in the body of the message, without the quotes.)

Lectures

All lectures are in Microsoft PowerPoint format.

• 3/27 - Introduction
• 3/29 - Architectural Support for OS
• 3/31 and 4/3 - OS Components and Structure
• 4/5 - Processes
• 4/7 and 4/10 - Threads vs. Processes
• 4/12 - Scheduling
• 4/14 - Synchronization
• 4/17 - NT Synchronization Primitives
• 4/19 and 4/21 - Deadlock
• 4/21 and 4/24 - NT EResources
• 4/26 - Mid Term review
• 4/28 - Memory Management Introduction
• 5/1 - Virtual Memory and Paging
• 5/3 and 5/5 - Virtual Memory and Paging Examples
• 5/8 - Memory Management (continued)
• 5/10 - Disk Drivers
• 5/12 and 5/15 - File Systems
• 5/17 - Guest lecture (no lecture notes - sorry!)
• 5/19 and 5/22 - File Systems Variations and Software Caching
• 5/24 and 5/26 - IO Systems and Other Storage Systems
• 5/31 - Accounting, Protection, and Security
• 6/2 - Distributed Systems, RPC, and Recap

Sections

Paper Homeworks

Right now, all homeworks are in word format. Soon I will add PDF and PS versions.

• Homework 1 - Due Wednesday 4/5 Word PS PDF Solutions
• Homework 2 - Due Wednesday 4/12 Word PS PDF Nachos code Problem 4 replacement Solutions
• Homework 3 - Due Wednesday 5/17 Word text Solutions

Programming Assignments

Nachos code and installation instructions.

• Programming Assignment 1
• Programming Assignment 2
• Programming Assignment 3

Other Files

• The Nachos roadmap in html and postscript
     

Exams

External Resources

• Getting accounts for this course
• Threads Programming Reference

Instructor and TAs

Instructor

Teaching Assistant

Class Meetings

Lecture

Discussion