CS-537: Introduction to Operating Systems

University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Computer Sciences
Fall 2012

Basic Information

Section 1:
Lecture: T and Th @ 1:00pm-2:15pm in ENGR HALL 2535
Discuss: W @ 01:20pm-02:10pm in PSYCH 103

Laura Hobbes LeGault (3387 CS)
Office hours: M@1:00, Th@2:30, by appointment

TA: Min Thu Aung (1301 CS)
Office hours: T@3-5:00, F@4:00

Read These

Overview - Grades - Discussion
Homework - Handouts - Book

Class News

12/11: Our final exam will be 12/22 at 10:05am in 2080 Grainger Hall.
11/05: Midterm distribution is up, and the midterm itself is available here. If you got less than a 60%, please work through it and come talk to me.
10/30: Happy Halloween: have a Project 4!
10/18: I'll be modeling the midterm off Remzi's past exams, which he has made available here.

09/03 Labor Day 09/04 Intro pre   1   2 09/05 P1 09/06 Processes d   4   5   6 09/07
09/10 09/11 Sched 7   8   d   09/12 09/13 Mem Mgmt 12   14   15 09/14
09/17 P1:Due 09/18 Paging 17 09/19 P2 09/20 Paging: TLBs 18 09/21
09/24 09/25 Paging: Smaller 19 09/26 09/27 Beyond Physical 20   21 09/28
10/01 10/02 Review 10/03 P2:Due 10/04 No class 10/05 P3
10/08 10/09 Threads 24   25 10/10 10/11 Locks 27 10/12
10/15 10/16 Locks, CVs 10/17 10/18 CVs 29 10/19
10/22 10/23 Semaphores 30 10/24 10/25 Deadlock 31 10/26 P3:Due
10/29 Midterm 10/30 I/O/Disks 35   36 10/31 P4 11/01 RAID 37 11/02
11/05 11/06 File Systems 38 11/07 11/08 FS Impl 39 11/09
11/12 11/13 FFS 40 11/14 11/15 Journaling 41 11/16
11/19 P4:Due 11/20 LFS 42 11/21 P5 11/22 Thanksgiving! 11/23
11/26 11/27 DistSys 45   46 NFS 47 11/28 11/29 NFS 47 AFS 48 11/30
12/03 12/04 Virtual Machines A1 12/05 12/06 Securityvideo 12/07
12/10 12/11 Googlevideo 12/12 P5:Due 12/13 Last class 12/14 Classes end
12/17 12/18 12/19 12/20 12/21 12/22 Final
This website and most of the course content stolen rather shamelessly from Remzi in 2012