CS411 & CS511- Operating Systems II - Fall 2002

General Class Information

• Course Syllabus
  • Includes office hours and contact information for TA and Prof.
• Course Objectives
• Class Schedule/ Calendar of Assignments and Events
  • When assignments, projects are due. When reading is due.
• Group assignments for CS411 and CS511
• Synchronization Examples
  • Three solutions to the Barbershop problem, one with semaphores, one with a monitor, and one with Java

Nachos Project

• Nachos API documentation
• Nachos for Java Walkthrough - (PDF), (2-per page Postscript)
• CVS Instructions
• Instructions on how to work with Nachos in CodeWarrior
• Nachos Project 1
  • Project 1 Description.
  • Helpful hints on Project 1.
  • How to get the Nachos code (CVS)
  • How to submit your nachos code
• Nachos Project 2
  • Project 2 Description.
  • How to submit your nachos code for project 2
  • Explanation of test cases to be run.
• Nachos Project 3
• Project 3 descripton.
• How to submit your nachos code for project 2
• Explanation of test cases to be run.

Lecture Slides

• Lecture 2 (Wed Oct 2) - Introduction to OS and Hardware
• Lecture 3 (Fri Oct 4) - Compiling and Running Nachos
• File systems lecture (mon nov 18) - here
• File systems lecture (wed nov 20) - here

Fun & Interesting Links

• Intel Pentium 4 Processor Manuals.
• Sun Ultrasparc Processor Manuals
• Sparc V9 Architecture Specification