CS-537: Introduction to Operating Systems

University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Computer Sciences
Spring 2010

Basic Information

Section 1: ( General deadlines )
Lecture: T and Th @ 11:00am-12:15pm in B302 BIRGE
Discuss: Th @ 3:30pm-4:20pm in B371 CHEM 494 Van Hise

Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (7357 CS)
Office hours: T@4pm F@1:30pm and by appointment

TA: Thanh Do
Office hours: M@1pm, W@3pm, Th@2pm in 1306 CS

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Overview - Grades - Discussion
Homework - Handouts - Notes

Class News

05/21: All grades (use last 5 digits of ID)
05/10: Solutions to final
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01/18 01/19 Class begins Intro i1   i2 01/20 P1 01/21 Processes c1   c2 01/22
01/25 01/26 Scheduling c3 01/27 01/28 Scheduling(II) c4   c5 01/29
02/01 P1:Due 02/02 Mem Mgmt m1   m2   m3 P2 02/03 02/04 Segmentation/Paging(I) m4 02/05
02/08 02/09 Paging: TLBs m5 02/10 02/11 Paging: Smaller m6 02/12
02/15 P2:Due 02/16 Beyond Physical: Mech m7 02/17 P3 02/18 Beyond Physical: Policies m8 02/19
02/22 02/23 Catch up 02/24 02/25 Case Study: VMS 02/26
03/01 03/02 Case Study: VMS 03/03 P3:Due 03/04 Virtual Machines v1 03/05
03/08 Midterm 03/09 Threads t1 03/10 P4 03/11 Locks t2 03/12
03/15 03/16 Locks: H/W t3 , t4 03/17 03/18 CVs t5 03/19
03/22 03/23 Semaphores t6 03/24 03/25 Deadlock t7 P4: Due 03/26
03/29 Spring 03/30 Break 03/31 Enjoy 04/01 Yourself 04/02 (Some)
04/05 04/06 I/O/Disks f1 - f2 04/07 P5 04/08 RAID f3 04/09
04/12 04/13 Files 04/14 04/15 File Systems f5 04/16
04/19 04/20 FFS f6 04/21 P5: Due 04/22 Journaling f7 04/23 P6
04/26 04/27 LFS f8 04/28 04/29 NFS f9 04/30
05/03 05/04 AFS f10 05/05 05/06 Last Class 05/07 P6: Due
05/10 05/11 Final@12:25pm Noland 168 05/12 05/13 05/14