Home Page for CS418 (Fall 2009)

Schedule

• Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 8:00pm--8:50am in EPS103

Textbook

• Secondary: Operating Systems (6th edition), by William Stallings, Prentice Hall (We might use this book for some advanced topics.)

Instructor: Dr. Rocky Ross (primary)

Instructor: Dr. Binhai Zhu (secondary)

• Office: EPS 355
• Office hours: Tue, Wed: 9am-10am; Wed: 2pm-4pm (or by appointment)
• Email: bhz@cs.montana.edu
• Phone: X4836

Syllabus by week

• We will update the syllabus before each lecture.
• Oct 28, 30 --- Job scheduling (read chapter 9). More slides .
• Nov 2 --- Public-key cryptosystem (read handouts).
• Nov 4 --- File management (read chapter 12).
• Nov 6, 9 --- Device management (read chapter 11).
• Nov 11 --- No class, Veteran's Day.
• Nov 13, 16 --- Advanced topic in distributed computing (read chapter 18.3, which is on-line).
• Nov 18 --- Introduction to queuing analysis (read handouts).
• Nov 20 --- Quiz (15 points; contents: everything covered up to Nov 16th).
• Nov 23 --- review of the quiz.
• Nov 25, 27 --- No class, Thanksgiving Holiday.
• Nov 30 --- Dec 11, project presentations.

Project (15%)

• We will do a project at the end of this term, during the last two weeks in late November and early December. This project has been very very successful during the previous nine occasions when I taught this course! The rough idea is that students taking this course will be divided into about 6 groups, each with about 2 people. Each group will be given (or choose) a specific OS (or part of it) for detailed survey and analysis. Finally each group will write a 6-10 pages report (or a 10-15 pages slides) and give a (~40)-minute presentation in class. (The rough idea is that each student is expected to present for about 20 minutes; e.g., a 2-people group should present for about 40 minutes, including question answering time.) The evaluation is based on the report as well as the presentation. Each member of the same group should participate in the presentation and will receive the same mark. For more details check the following possible topics. FINAL PROJECT REPORT DUE: Dec 11, 2009!
• The following is a list of projects for 2008. They can be chosen based on the first come first serve policy. But you can also propose your own projects. Two groups cannot share exactly the same topic, but situations like different parts of Unix are allowed.
• Real-time OS (Kaj Springer and Kairat Zhubayev; presentation time: Nov 30, 8:05-8:45am)
• Binary Translation (Eric Loya and Garrett Pauls; presentation time: Dec 2, 8:05-8:45am)
• Windows File Management Systems: FAT, FAT32, and NFTS (Ben Sauskojus and Xun Xing; presentation time: Dec 4, 8:05-8:45am)
• Virtual Machines (Chris Conlon and Kevin Fenger; presentation time: Dec 7, 8:05-8:45am)
• Completely Web Based Operating Systems (Ryan Nix and Cody Wenzel; presentation time: Dec 9, 8:05-8:45am)
• Comparison of Windows 7 and Mac OS X (Max Bechdel and Wesley Gooch; presentation time: Dec 11, 8:00-8:30am)
• Unix device management (Adam Kilwine and Andrew Shull; presentation time: Dec 11, 8:30-9:00am)

Please pick up your graded assignments/quizs/projects from Rocky ASAP!!!