Course Info
The course schedule and syllabus can be found on the course website: bit.ly/nyuadOS
Class lectures and assignments will be shared through an NYU google drive folder.
The class group forum and mailing list is nyuados-group@nyu.edu
Acks
Many thanks to Professor Kai Li at Princeton, his teaching assistant Yida Wang and his collaborators at the University of Tromso for providing us with their code for our labs.
Warning
A condition of using the Princeton code base is not to distribute/share the skeleton code or your solutions. All assignment resources are therefore distributed through NYU Drive. Solutions must be submitted securely.
Schedule
| Week |
Date |
Read |
Monday |
Read |
Wednesday |
Thursday/Saturday |
| 0 |
25-Jan |
|
|
|
Overview |
Lab 0 - Prep Lab; |
| 1 |
1-Feb |
The Unix TS
Paper;
|
OS Structure; Boot Process |
SGG Chp 1, 2; SGG Sec 3.1-3.3; Sys Prog
Misery |
Process & Threads |
Lab 1 - BootLoader |
| 2 |
8-Feb |
Birell Threads Paper;
SGG Chp 4
|
Process & Threads; Concurrency Control |
SGG Chp 5 |
Concurrency Control |
Design Review |
| 3 |
15-Feb |
SGG Chp 7 |
Concurrency Control & Deadlocks |
SGG Chp 6 |
Process Scheduling |
Lab 2 - Non-Preemptive Kernel |
| 4 |
22-Feb |
SGG Sec 3.4-3.6 |
Inter-Process Communication |
SGG Chp 8 |
Memory Management |
Design Review |
| 5 |
1-Mar |
SGG Chp 9 |
Memory Management; Paging |
SGG Chp 9 |
Caching; Virtual Memory |
Lab 3 - Preemptive kernel |
| 6 |
8-Mar |
SGG Chp 13 |
IO |
SGG Chp 13 |
Device Drivers |
Design Review |
| 7 |
15-Mar |
|
Midterm |
|
Spring Break |
|
| 8 |
22-Mar |
|
Spring Break |
|
Spring Break |
|
| 8 |
29-Mar |
SGG Chp 13 |
File Systems (Interface) |
SGG Chp 11 |
File Systems (Implementation) |
Lab 5 - Virtual Memory |
| 9 |
5-Apr |
SGG Chp 12; Log Structured FS |
File Systems (Log Structured FS) |
|
Log Structured FS |
Design Review |
| 10 |
12-Apr |
SGG Chp 17 |
Networking |
|
Distributed Systems |
|
| 12 |
19 Apr |
|
Virtualization |
Trail of Bytes (Security + Virtualization) |
Tasos |
|
| 13 |
26-Apr |
TBD - Paper Presentation |
Student |
TBD - Paper Presentation |
Student |
|
| 14 |
3-May |
TBD - Paper Presentation |
Student |
|
TBD |
|
| 15 |
10-May |
|
Exam Preparation |
|
Final Exam |
|
Readings for Extra Credit
Paxos Made Simple
MapReduce
GFS
ExoKernel
Soft updates
To get credit, create and upload to the class, spark notes of the paper to help them understand it easily without spending effort researching base material or reading the actual paper. You must also critique the paper. Each paper you review gives you 5% extra credit points.
Syllabus
Textbook & Recommended books
Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, Operating System Concepts (SGG) Ninth Edition
Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems (MOS) Third Edition
Tanenbaum and Woodhull, OS Design and Implementation, Second Edition
Use of Outside Help
Plagiarism is not acceptable. Solutions must be the individual's or the group's own work. If a solution benefits substaintially from hints or solutions from outside sources, such sources must be fully acknowledged.
Grading - Tentative Distribution
Four - Five Projects: 40 - 50%
Midterm Exam: 15% - 10%
Final Exam (Last Day of Class - In Class): 15% - 10%
Paper Presentations: 10%
Reading & Participation: 10%
Paper Critiques & Reading Write-ups: 10%
Late Assignments
You have 100 hours of lateness forgiveness: use them wisely. No late assignments will be otherwise accepted.
Team Policy
Expect to be paired in groups of 2-3 students
