George Mason University
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
CS 571 Operating Systems - Spring 2004
Tuesday 4.30 - 7.10 P.M.
Innovation Hall Rm. 206
Instructor: Dr. Hakan Aydin
Description:
This course covers the principles of operating systems
theory and practice. Fundamental concepts such as processes,
synchronization,
scheduling and memory management will be presented. Another emphasis
will be on the principles of distributed operating systems.
Prerequisites:
CS 310 and CS 365, or equivalent.
A solid background in Computer Architecture
is required. In order to be able to work on the
programming projects, the students must be comfortable with
C/C++ or Java programming languages.
Readings:
Required Textbook: "Operating System Concepts",
by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
(6th Edition, John Wiley & Sons 2003,
ISBN 0-471-25060-0).
"Modern Operating Systems" (2nd edition, Prentice Hall 2001,
ISBN: 0-13-031358-0), by A. S. Tanenbaum is another
good book on the principles of operating systems.
As additional reference on distributed systems, the following book
can be recommended:
"Distributed Systems: Concept and Design"
(3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley 2001, ISBN 0201-619-180), by
Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg.
Office Hours:
Tuesday: 7.20 PM - 8.20 PM,
Wednesday: 7.20 PM - 8.20 PM, and
by appointment (Office: ST II, Room 401)
Topics:
- Introduction, Threads and Processes
- Interprocess Communication, Synchronization, Deadlocks
- CPU Scheduling
- Memory Management
- File and I/0 Systems
- Protection and Security
- Distributed System Structures, Communication
- Distributed Coordination, Synchronization and Agreement
- Distributed File Systems
- Fault Tolerance, Real-time Computing
Tentative Exam Schedule:
- Midterm: 3/16 (Changed due to inclement weather/class cancellation on 1/27)
- Final: 5/11
Grading:
- Midterm 30%
- Final 35%
- Programming Projects / Assignments 35%
The students must achieve a total score of at least 85 (out of 100)
to be considered for an A. No early exams will be given and
make-up exams are strongly discouraged.
GMU Honor Code will be enforced. The students are
supposed to work individually on the assignments/projects.
Collaboration will be allowed only for the group projects, within
each group.
We reserve the right to use MOSS to detect plagiarism.
Violations of GMU Honor Code or a total score of 49 (or less) will result in an F.
TA:
Shen-Shyang Ho (sho@cs.gmu.edu)
TA Office Hours: Monday 5.30 PM - 7.30 PM, Tuesday 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM (ST II, Room 435)
Computer Accounts: Any student who is planning to work on
IT&E lab computers for programming projects should obtain an account
(Information here)
Course Web Page: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~aydin/cs571