CSE 30341 - Operating Systems Principles - Spring 2025

• Prof. Douglas Thain (dthain@nd.edu)
• Grad TA: Lydia Csaszar (lcsaszar@nd.edu)
• Grad TA: Kylee Kazenski (kkazensk@nd.edu)
• Ugrad TA: Anthony Tsiantis (atsianti@nd.edu)
• Ugrad TA: Leyang Li (lli27@nd.edu)

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• Syllabus
• General Instructions for Assignments
• Gradebook on Canvas
• Assignments on Canvas
• Slack Channel

Office Hours (Starting Week of Jan 20)

• *** indicates not first week
• TAs in 150B Fitzpatrick (CSE student commons)
• Prof. Thain in 384C Fitzpatrick (CSE Department Office)

Textbooks

• Required: Operating Systems in Three Easy Pieces, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Arpaci-Dusseau Books, March, 2018 (Version 1.00)
• For Reference: Dive Info Systems, Suzanne Matthews, Tia Newhall, and Kevin Webb, 2020.

Tentative Schedule

Week	Reading Due Mon 11:59PM	Tuesday	Thursday	Due Friday 5:00PM
13 Jan		Intro Slides Syllabus OS-List	Hardware Metric Math BK:Interrupts	Homework A Ch 1-2 Notes Due
20 Jan	Ch. 3-6	Process API	Process Implementation BK:Processes	Project 1
27 Jan	Ch. 7-11	Scheduling	Scheduling	Homework B
3 Feb	Ch. 25-29	Threads	Locks and Data Structures	Project 2
10 Feb	Ch. 30	Condition Vars	CV Contd Examples	Homework C
17 Feb	Ch. 31	CV Contd Pathfinder	Semaphores Examples	Project 3
24 Feb	Ch. 32-33	Deadlock	Memory Overview	Homework D
3 Mar	Ch. 13-16	Segmentation	Midterm Exam
10 Mar	-	Spring Break	Spring Break
17 Mar	Ch. 17-19	Paging Mechanisms	TLBs / Performance
24 Mar	Ch. 20-22	Multi-Level Paging	Swapping	Project 4
31 Mar	Ch. 35-37 + 44	Swapping Cont.	I/O Devices (Mouse / Disk)	Homework E
7 Apr	Ch. 38-39	HDD Datasheet SSD Datasheet	Buffer Cache	Project 5
14 Apr	Ch. 40-42	Filesystem	Filesystem	(Easter Break)
21 Apr	Ch. 53-55	Security	Security
28 Apr	-	Review	No Class	Project 6
5 May			Final Exam May 8th 7:30-9:30PM