Course Schedule

CS422/522: Operating Systems, Spring 2008, Yale University

Last modified: April 21, 2008.

1/14:: Lecture: Introduction (SGG 1)
1/16:: Lecture: OS Structures & System Calls (SGG 2)
1/18:: Lecture: Project Overview & Introduction to Assignment 1

1/21:: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day; No Lecture
1/23:: Lecture: Processes and Threads (SGG 3.1-3.3, 4.1-4.2)

1/28:: Lecture: Threads Implementation & Mutual Exclusion (Birrell, SGG 4.3-4.4)
1/30:: Lecture: Preemptive Scheduling & Mutex Implementation (Birrell, SGG 6.1-6.4)
1/31:: Assignment 1 Due.

2/4:: Lecture: CPU Scheduling (SGG 5.1-5.5)
2/6:: Lecture: Sychronization and Semaphores (Birrell, SGG 6.5-6.6)

2/11:: Lecture: Monitors, and Condition Variables (Birrell, SGG 6.6-6.8)
2/13:: Lecture: Deadlocks (SGG 7.1-7.6)
2/14:: Assignment 2 Due.

2/18:: Lecture: Message Passing (SGG 3.4-3.6)
2/20:: Lecture: Multiprogramming & Address Spaces (SGG 8.1-8.6)

2/25:: Lecutre: Virtual Memory & Address Translation (SGG 8.4-8.6, 9.1-9.2)
2/27:: Lecture: Paging and Thrashing (SGG 9.3-9.6)
2/28:: Assignment 3 Due.

3/3:: Lecture: Virtual Memory Design Issues (SGG 9.3-9.9)
3/5:: Midterm Exam (in-class, open-book, 75 minutes)

3/24:: Lecture: I/O Devices and Drivers (SGG 13.1-13.7)
3/26:: Lecture: Disks & Mass-Storage Structure (SGG 12.1-12.9)

3/31:: Lecture: File System Interface (SGG 10.1-10.6)
4/2:: Lecture: File System Implementation; LFS (SGG 11.1-11.7)
4/3:: Assignment 4 Due.

4/7:: Lecture: Security and Trust (SGG 14-15)
4/9:: Lecture: Software Transactional Memory (STM)

4/14:: Lecture: Certified Concurrent Code w. Interrupts
4/16:: Lecture: More on STM; Unix and Linux (SGG 21)
4/17:: Assignment 5 Due.

4/21:: Lecture: Singularity OS
4/23:: Lecture: Multimedia Operating Systems (SGG 20)

5/2:: Assignment 6 Due.