CSE 30341 - Operating Systems Principles

• 136 Debartolo Hall, Spring 2022
• Prof. Douglas Thain (dthain@nd.edu)
• Grad TA: Barry Sly-Delgado (bslydelg@nd.edu)
• Grad TA: Ben Lyons (blyons1@nd.edu)
• UGrad TA: Mark Schermerhorn (mscherm2@nd.edu)

Office Hours (Starting Jan 17th)

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
1-3PM	Prof. Thain (*)			Prof. Thain (*)	Ben (+)
3-5PM		Ben (+)		Mark (+) (3:30)
5-7PM		Mark (+)	Barry (+)	Barry (+)

• (*) in 384C Fitzpatrick
• (+) in 150B Fitzpatrick (CSE student commons)

Quick Links

• Syllabus
• Submit Reading Notes on Canvas
• General Instructions for Assignments
• Recorded Lectures on Panopto
• Gradebook on Canvas
• Office Hours Zoom

Online Textbook

• Required: Operating Systems in Three Easy Pieces, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Arpaci-Dusseau Books, March, 2018 (Version 1.00)
• Suggested: The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, Prentice Hall, 1988.

Some Open Source OS Kernels

• Basekernel (by Prof. Thain)
• Minix
• Plan 9 from Bell Labs
• Linux Kernel
• NetBSD

Tentative Schedule

Week	Reading Due Mon 11:59PM	Tuesday	Thursday	Due Friday 5PM
10 Jan	Ch. 1-2	Overview / Syllabus	Hardware / Powers
17 Jan	Ch. 3-6	Processes	Processes	Project 1 Due
24 Jan	Ch. 7-11	Scheduling	Scheduling	Project 2 Due
31 Jan	Ch. 25-29	Threads	Locks and Data Structures	Watch Nova: Fractals
7 Feb	Ch. 30	Condition Variables	CV Contd / Examples	Homework A Due
14 Feb	Ch. 31-34	Catch Up	Semaphores / Examples	Project 3 Due
21 Feb	Ch. 13-16	Deadlock	Memory Overview	Homework B Due
28 Feb	–	Segmentation	Midterm Exam
7 Mar	-	Spring Break	Spring Break
14 Mar	Ch. 17-19	Paging Mechanisms	TLBs / Performance
21 Mar	Ch. 20-22	Multi-Level Paging	Swapping	Project 4 Due
28 Mar	Ch. 35-37 + 44	I/O Devices / (Mouse / Disk)	HDD Datasheet / SSD Datasheet
4 Apr	Ch. 38-39	RAID	FS Abstraction	Project 5 Due
11 Apr	Ch. 40-42	FS Implementation	FS Structure
18 Apr	Ch. 53-55	Security	Security
25 Apr	-	Project 6 Due	No Class
2 May	Final Exam Monday 10:30	-	-