CS-537: Introduction to Operating Systems

University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Computer Sciences
Spring 2011

Basic Information

Section 1: ( General deadlines )
Lecture: T and Th @ 09:30am-10:45pm in 3032 Engineering Hall
Discuss: Th @ 3:30pm-4:20pm in 1227 Engineering Hall

Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (7357 CS)
Office hours: T @ 12:30pm, Th @ 11:00am and by appointment

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

Read These

Overview - Grades - Discussion
Homework - Handouts - Book

Class News

05/06: FS Implementation
05/03: File Intro Chapter , finally
04/29: Grade Distributions
04/29: Contests Page
Older: Here

01/17 01/18 Class begins Intro i1 01/19 P1 01/20 Processes c1   c2 01/21
01/24 01/25 Scheduling c3   c4   c5 01/26 01/27 Mem Mgmt m1   m2   m3 01/28 P1:Due
01/31 02/01 Segmentation/Paging(I) m4 P2 02/02 02/03 Paging: TLBs m5 02/04
02/07 02/08 Paging: Smaller m6 02/09 02/10 Beyond Physical: Mech m7 02/11 P2:Due
02/14 P3 02/15 Beyond Physical: Policies m8 02/16 02/17 No class 02/18
02/21 02/22 Case Study: VMS 02/23 02/24 Virtual Machines v1 02/25
02/28 P3:Due 03/01 Virtual Machines (II) 03/02 Midterm 03/03 Threads t1 03/04
03/07 03/08 Locks t2 03/09 P4 03/10 Locks: H/W t3   t4 03/11
03/14 Spring 03/15 Break: 03/16 Go 03/17 Somewhere 03/18 Warm
03/21 03/22 CVs t5 03/23 03/24 Semaphores t6 03/25
03/28 P4: Due (Sunday 3/27) 03/29 Deadlock t7 03/30 03/31 I/O/Disks f1   f2 04/01 P5
04/04 04/05 RAID f3 04/06 04/07 File Systems f5 04/08
04/11 P5: Due (Sunday 4/10) 04/12 FS Impl 04/13 P6 04/14 No Class 04/15
04/18 04/19 FFS f6 04/20 04/21 Journaling f7 04/22
04/25 P6:Due 04/26 LFS f8 04/27 P7 04/28 DistSys and NFS f9 04/29
05/02 05/03 AFS f10 or Security 05/04 05/05 Last Class 05/06
05/09 05/10 Final@12:25pm 05/11 05/12 05/13