PrintLectures: Operating Systems
Course Information Page Operating Systems (L.079.05704)
Winter Semester 2010 / 2011
- Class Meeting: Friday, 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm
- Exercises: Friday, 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm
- Classroom: F0.530 / F1.110 from October 29th
- Course Instructor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. André Brinkmann
News
- Classes wil start on October 15th.
- The Mailing list for the course has been set up. You can subscribe to the list here.
- We will move to room F1.110 from October 29th
- There will be no classes on November 5th
- There will be no classes on November 19th and November 26th
- Excercises will start on December 3rd
- There will be additional classes on December 4th
- The next exercises will be on January 28th
Readings
The first part of this course will closely follow course material prepared by William Stallings and Andrew S. Tanenbaum as well as last years lectures from Franz Rammig:
- William Stallings: Operating Systems - Internals and Design Principles, Sixth Edition, Pearson International Edition
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum: Modern Operating Systems, Third Edition, Prentice Hall
The virtualization technology part of this course is based on a course given by Scott Device, VMWare, Inc. This course is based on
- Jim Smith, Ravi Nair: Virtual Machines - Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes
Exercises
The exercises will start on December 1st and will mainly consist of system level and operating system level implementations. Therefore, rudimentary C skills are mandatory. The exercises will be based on Linux, examples will be given based on the Ubuntu Deskto distribution. Online editorials on Linux kernel compilation are available on the Ubuntu community page for Ubuntu kernels and for Vanilla kernels on the following Ubunutu GIT-related page. We strongly recommend that you install the Linux OS inside a virtual machine of your choice.
Course Schedule
| Date | Topic | Recommended Readings |
|---|---|---|
| 15/10/2010 | General Concepts | Stallings, Chapter 2 |
| 22/10/2010 | History and Structure | Tanenbaum Chapter 1 Liedtke: On micro-kernel construction |
| 22/10/2010 | Windows vs. Linux | Stallings Chapter 2 Tanenbaum Chapter 11 Course on Embedded Systems (see course 7 and 12) |
| 12/11/2010 | Processes | Stallings Chapter 3 |
| 03/12/2010 | Threads, SMP, and Microkernels | Stallings Chapter 4 |
| 04/12/2010 | Scheduling | Stallings, Chapter 9 |
| 04/12/2010 | Multiprocessor Scheduling | Stallings, Chapter 10 |
| 04/12/2010 | Scheduling of heterogeneous accelerators | |
| 10/12/2010 | Memory Management | Stallings, Chapter 7 and 8 |
| 07/01/2011 | Virtualization | Heavily copied from course from Scott Devine Popek Goldberg: Formal requirements for virtualizable third generation architectures |
| 14/01/2011 | Cloud Computing | Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data |
| 21/01/2011 | Singularity | Taken from Microsoft Research |
| 21/01/2011 | Chromium | |
| 04/02/2011 | Security |
Exercises
| Date | Topic | Examples |
| 03/12/2009 | System Calls | Shell Skeleton |
| 10/12/2010 | System Call Interface | Source Code Syscall Interface -- Pure Interface Taken from an Operating System Course from Jason Nieh |
| 14/01/2010 | Scheduling | Taken from an Operating System Course from Jason Nieh Syscall Implementation Test program |
