CS-537: Introduction to Operating Systems
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Computer Sciences
Spring 2014

Basic Information

Instructor:
Dan Myers (4378 CS)
Lecture: T and Th @ 1:00-2:15 in 1221 CS
Discuss: Th @ 2:30-3:45 in 168 Noland
Office Hours: M @ 1-2 and F @ 10-11

TA:
Brandon Davis (1306 CS)
Office Hours: T @ 3-4 and Th @ 9:30-10:30

Read These

Overview
Homework - Handouts - Book

Class News

4/10: Project 5 is posted.

4/10: Project 4 is posted.

3/24: Project 3 is posted.

3/6: Old exams are available.

3/6: Handouts from the lectures on concurrency have been posted.

2/27: Links to the homework simulators (useful for exam review) are linked above under Homework.

1/20 1/21 Intro pre   1   2 1/22 P1 1/23 Processes d   4   5   6 1/24
1/27 1/28 Sched 7   8   d   1/29 1/30NO CLASS 1/31
2/03 2/04 Mem Mgmt 12   14   15 2/05 P1 due, P2 out 2/06 Paging 17 2/07
2/10 2/11 Paging: TLBs 18 2/12 2/13 Paging: Smaller 19 2/14
2/17 2/18 Beyond Physical 20   21 2/19 2/20 Slack 2/21
2/24 P2 due 2/25Threads 24   25 2/26 2/27 Locks 27 2/28
3/03 3/04 CVs 29 3/05 3/06 Semaphores 30 3/07
3/10 3/11 Bugs 31 3/12 3/13 MIDTERM EXAM 3/14
3/17 3/18 SPRING 3/19 3/20 BREAK 3/21
3/24 P3 3/25 I/O and Disks d   35   36 3/26 3/27 RAID 37 3/28
3/31 4/01 File Systems 38 4/02 4/03 FS Impl 39 4/04
4/07 4/08 FFS 40 4/09 P3 due P4 4/10 Journaling 41 4/11
4/14 4/15 LFS 42 4/16 4/17 DistSys 45   46 4/18
4/21 4/22 NFS 47 4/23 4/24 AFS 48 P4 Due 4/25
4/28 4/29 GFS paper book 4/30 5/01 MapReduce paper 5/02
5/05 5/06 Disco 49 5/07 5/08 Wrap-up and Review 5/09 P5 Due (Saturday)