Spring Semester - 2005
Room:
305, Jacobs Bldg.
Sunday
Consulting: Sunday 11:30
-12:00, 305, Jacobs Bldg. (after the lecture)
Final Exam:
1. Aleph-
1. Bet – July 22, 2005, 8:30 AM
This course is an Advanced
Course in Operating Systems.
Course prerequisites - understanding of
programming concepts and languages, basic knowledge of Computer Architecture,
and a basic course in Operating Systems
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What to expect?
Lectures will be given using
overhead slides. The slides are in PowerPoint or PDF format for which free
viewers are available for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. The lectures will be
posted here. Some may be in compressed form (zip), and should be downloaded as
binaries.
· Lectures 1 & 2 (Feb 20 & 27,
2005): Performance Evaluation (Dafna Sheinwald, IBM)
Slides: [PDF
396K]; 2 foils per page: [PDF
1480K]; 4 foils per page:
[PDF 1460K]
· Lectures 3 & 4 (Mar 6 & 13,
2005): Multiple Processor Systems (Oleg Goldshmidt)
Slides: Lecture
3 [PDF 1960K]; Lecture
4 [PDF 1910K]
· Lectures 5 & 6 (Mar 20 & 27,
2005): Parallel Processing
(Oleg Goldshmidt)
Slides: Lecture
5 [PDF 1420K]; Lecture
6 [PDF 1310K]
· Lecture 7 (
Slides: Lecture
7 [PDF 2350K]
·
Lecture 8 (Apr 10, 2005): GPFS
(Benjamin Mandler, IBM)
Slides: Lecture 8 [PPT 1840K]
· Lecture 9 (
Slides: Lecture 9 [PPT 1490K]
· Lecture 10 (
Slides: Lecture 10 [Compressed PPT
147K]
· Lectures 11 (
Slides: Lecture 11 [Compressed PPT 65K]
· Lectures 12 (
Slides: Lecture 12 [Compressed PPT 80K]
· Lecture 13 (
Slides: Lecture 13
[PDF 1800K]
· Lecture 14 (
Slides: Lecture
14 [PDF 1130K]
Seminar
The seminar, scheduled for the last meeting of the
class on
The seminar is not mandatory, but it will account for 10% of the final grade. Please note that it is not a
means to improve the final grade, i.e. a student who forgoes the seminar will
not get more than 90 points as his/her final grade.
The students can choose a paper to present, but it has
to be an important paper on Operating Systems and it will be subject to the
lecturers' approval. The students may select a paper from the following list of
suggested papers. The set of papers is downloadable from here as an encrypted
zip archive (this site is publicly accessible and posting papers here is not
allowed by copyright rules). The papers can be used for educational purposes,
and the registered students will receive the password to the archive by email.
Suggested Seminar
Papers [Encrypted ZIP Archive, 2250KB]
During the seminar each team (two students) will
present the paper to the class. The presentation should have two distinct parts
– positive and critical. The presentation should be on overhead slides -
use your own computer, bring a removable storage device (CD, USB key, etc.), or
send the presentation to the lecturers by email in advance. The presentation,
including questions, will last no longer than 25 – 30 minutes. Please do
not prepare too many slides, plan to spend at least a couple of minutes on each
slide. Prepare backup slides (in anticipation of questions or for other
reasons) if you think it may help.
Please note that updated information on the seminar
assignments has been sent to all the registered students by email. The email
was sent to the addresses provided by the University, usually <user>@study.haifa.ac.il or <user>@cs.haifa.ac.il. If this is not your primary mailbox please either
check it regularly or arrange for forwarding to the address of your choice.
Please supply the missing information by email ASAP
· if you have not chosen a paper to
present yet
· if you have not got a partner yet
· if you do not intend to take part in the
seminar
Thank you.