CSE 120 Tentative Schedule

Please note: One of the many benefits of the live classroom is that plans can change to meet the needs of the class. The schedule below is just tentative. Sometimes discussion will limit some topics. Sometimes it will introduce others.

Week 1

  • Course Introduction (Read: Chapters 1 and 2)
  • Hardware Support (Read: Chapter 6)

  • Tuesday: Project 0 (Nachos Jumpstart) Assigned
  • Thursday: Homework #1 (Processes and Threads) Assigned

Week 2

  • Processes/Tasks (Read: Chapters 4 and 5)
  • Threads (Read: Chapters 26 and 27)

  • Tuesday: Project 0 (Nachos Jumpstart) Due
  • Tuesday: Project 1 (Threads) Assigned

Week 3

  • Job (Process and Thread) Scheduling (Read: Chapters 7 and 8)
  • Concurrency, Concurrency control, Critical sections, Synchronization basics (Read: Chapters 28 and 29)

  • Tuesday: Homework #1 (Processes and Threads) Due
  • Tuesday: Homework #2 (Concurrency, Synchronization, Scheduling, and Deadlock) Assigned

Week 4

  • Condition variables and Monitors, Examples (Read: Chapter 30)
  • Semaphores, Bounded buffer, Readers/Writers (Read: Chapter 31)

Week 5

  • Deadlock (Read: Chapter 32)
  • Slack/Review

  • Tuesday: Project 1 (Threads) Due
  • Tuesday: Project 2 (Multiprogramming) Assigned

Week 6

  • Midterm Exam
  • Virtual Memory and Paging, Overview (Read: Chapters 15, 16, and 18)

  • Sunday: Homework #2 (Concurrency Synchronization, Scheduling, and Deadlock) Due
  • Thursday: Homework #3 (VM, UM, and IO) Assigned

Week 7

  • 2-Level Page Tables, the TLB, and More (Read: Chapters 19 and 20)
  • Demand Paging, Working Sets, Thrashing, Replacement Policies (Read: Chapters 21, 22, and 23)

Week 8

  • User-level Memory Management, i.e. Malloc-Free
  • IO, Disk Scheduling, Buffer caching (Read: Chapters 36 and 37)

  • Tuesday: Project 2 (Multiprogramming) Due
  • Tuesday: Project 3 (Demand Paging) Assigned

Week 9

  • File Systems, Traditional (Read: Chapters 39 and 40)
  • File systems, B-Tree-based/Novel

  • Tuesday: Homework #3 (VM, UM, and IO) Due
  • Tuesday: Homework #4 (File Systems, Virtual Machines) Assigned

Week 10

  • Virtual Machines and Hypervisors (Read: Appendix B)
  • Review/Wrap-up

  • Thursday: Homework #4 (File Systems, Virtual Machines) Due
  • Friday: Project 3 (Demand Paging) Due

Final Exams

  • Thursday, June 9th, 2016, 7:00- 9:50pm in PCYNH 109