CS-537: Introduction to Operating Systems

University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Computer Sciences
Fall 2011

Basic Information

Section 1:
Lecture: T and Th @ 1:00pm-2:15pm in 4281 White
Discuss: M @ 4:35pm-5:25pm in 1221 Computer Sciences

Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (7357 CS)
Office hours: T@2:15-3:30, Th@4:00-5:00, and by appointment

TA: Aaron Brown (3393 CS)
Office hours: W@2:30-3:00, F@1:00-2:00pm, and by appointment

Read These

Overview - Grades - Discussion
Homework - Handouts - Book

Class News

12/19: Recorded discussion here
12/19: Final: Tuesday 12/20 @ 2:45pm in 168 Noland
12/19: Exam review in 1221 at 7:15pm tonight
12/15: One last lecture today!
12/13: No lecture; watch this instead
12/12: No discussion; extra office hour instead
12/08: Finally, midterm solutions!
12/03: P6
Older: News

09/05 09/06 Intro 2 09/07 P1 09/08 Processes 4   5   6 09/09
09/12 09/13 Scheduling 7   8 09/14 09/15 Mem Mgmt 12   09/16
09/19 P1:Due   P2 09/20 Paging 17 09/21 09/22 Paging: TLBs 18 09/23
09/26 09/27 Paging: Smaller 19 09/28 09/29 Beyond Physical 20   21 09/30
10/03 P2:Due 10/04 Threads 25 10/05 P3 10/06 Locks(II) 10/07
10/10 10/11 Locks 27 10/12 10/13 CVs 29 10/14
10/17 10/18 Semaphores 30 10/19 Midterm 10/20 Deadlock 31 10/21
10/24 P3:Due 10/25 I/O/Disks 35   36 10/26 P4 10/27 RAID 37 10/28
10/31 11/01 File Systems 38 11/02 11/03 FS Impl 39 11/04
11/07 11/08 FFS 40 11/09 P4:Due 11/10 Journaling 41 11/11 P5
11/14 11/15 LFS 42 11/16 11/17 SSDs 11/18
11/21 11/22 No class! 11/23 11/24 Tday 11/25 Break
11/28 11/29 DistSys 45   46 11/30 P5:Due 12/01 NFS 47 12/02 P6
12/05 12/06 AFS 48 12/07 12/08 Virtual Machines A1 12/09
12/12 12/13 Google video 12/14 12/15 Security video 12/16 P6:Due (Sun)
12/19 12/20 Final@2:45pm 12/21 12/22 12/23