Operating Systems (OS)

COURSE DETAILS

Instructors: Michael O'Boyle(mob AT inf.ed.ac.uk), IF1.06

Teaching Assistant: Tom Spink (t.spink AT sms.ed.ac.uk, IF-1.34, Office hours: 10:00am-11:00am on Tue and Wed or by appointment)

Timings and Venue: Semester 2 - Monday/Thursday at 09:00 in Appleton Tower Lecture Theatre 3.

Main Textbook: A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin and G. Gagne, "Operating System Concepts", 9th International student edition, John Wiley, 2013
Recommended: W. Stallings, "Operating Systems, Internals and Design Principles", 5th edition or later, Prentice Hall, 2005

Grading:

Coursework: 25% of course mark
- The coursework is a practical exercise. It consists of 2 parts. This first part (worth 30%) is due Thursday 04/02/16 4PM. The second part (worth 70%) is due Thursday 17/03/16 4PM.
- The details on the coursework are found here, and here are the associated slides.
- Due dates: 4pm on Thursday, 4th February (Week 4)
- Due dates: 4pm on Thursday, 17th March (Week 9)
- Submission is by submit. Late submission is not permitted.
- Detailed comments on your solutions will be returned by email no later than 31st March.
Exam: 75% of course mark
- Past Exam papers
- Last Exam
- List of examinable material will be found here.

Syllabus

Class Discussion: We will use Piazza for group discussion regarding coursework. Please visit http://piazza.com/ed.ac.uk/spring2016/os for guidelines.

Feedback: Summative feedback is given on the assessed coursework as detailed above. Formative feedback/forward is given by: question and answer during lectures; tutorial sessions in lecture slots held on demand; for the practical exercise, by Q&A on the class mailing list in order for students to check whether they are heading in the right direction; and by a scheduled session a few weeks before the exam.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Note: The contents of slides may undergo minor revisions. Please check the latest version before every class.

No.	Date	Topic	Readings
1	Jan 11	Administrative Details [slides] Intro [slides]	[Silberschatz] 1.1-1.4, 1.11
2	Jan 14	OS Operations and Structure [slides]	[Silberschatz] 1.2, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2.1, 2.3, 2.7, 3.1
3	Jan 21	Processes [slides]	[Silberschatz] 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6
4	Jan 28	Threads [slides]	[Silberschatz] 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4.1, 4.6, 4.7.2
5	Feb 1	Synchronization [slides]	[Silberschatz] 6.1, 6.2, 6.4, 6.5
6	Feb 4	Semaphores, Condition Variables, and Monitors [slides]	[Silberschatz] 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
7	Feb 8	Deadlock [slides]	[Silberschatz] 6.6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5.3
8	Feb 11	Scheduling [slides]	[Silberschatz] 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5
9	Feb 22	Memory Management [slides]	[Silberschatz] 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
10	Feb 25	Paging [slides]	[Silberschatz] 8.5 8.6, 9.3
11	Feb 29	Virtual Memory [slides]	[Silberschatz] 9.1 9.2.1 9.4 9.5.3 9.6
12	March 4	Secondary Storage [slides]	[Silberschatz] 12.1 12.4
-	March 7	Guest Lecture - Tim Harris Oracle Labs [slides]	[Silberschatz]
13	March 10	File Systems [slides]	[Silberschatz] 10.1 10.2 10.6 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4

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