CS371 Operating Systems and Architecture I

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Instructor:	Dr. Lixin Tao, ltao@pace.edu, http://csis.pace.edu/~lixin
	GC Office: GC416A, (914)422-4463 PLV Office: G320, (914)773-3449

Lectures:

PLV G315, Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:10AM-12:10PM

Office Hours:

Mondays, 12:30PM–2:30PM at PLV G318, 3PM–6PM at GC416A

Syllabus:

Computer organization review. Operating system structure. Process/thread management and Java multi-thread programming. Memory management. Virtual memory. File system interface and implementation. I/O systems. Distributed systems and Java networking programming. Protection and security.

Textbook

• Operating System Concepts, 6 th Edition , by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003. ISBN 0-471-25060-0

• Class notes and course material posted in course Blackborad

Assignment

There will be three assignments with both theoretical and programming components. The major body of the assignments is to implement a simple operating system based on the Pace OS Simulator. The assignments must be submitted by the specified deadline. No late submission will be accepted under normal situations.

Quizzes

There will be two quizzes, on October 13 and November 24, both may be administered through Pace Blackboard 5 (http://blackboard.pace.edu)

Grading Scheme

Assignments	30% (10% each)
Quizzes	30% (15% each)
Final Exam	40%

Selected Public Course Material

• Course syllabus
• Summary of key OS concepts that students must understand
• Pace Java OS Simulator and its documentation
• Review on system interrupt processing
• Java projects on key OS concepts
• Tutorial on Java exception handling
• Tutorial on Java multithreading
• Tutorial on Java networking
• Java source code supporting tutorials on Java multithreading and networking
• Tutorial on Internet computing (including Java Remote Method Invocation, RMI)

Current teaching schedule and course material are avaialble in Pace Blackboard