CS452 Operating System Concepts

Instructor

👨‍🏫 Hans Dulimarta
🏢 MAK C-2215
📫 HansDulimarta@gvsu.edu

Office Hours

MonTueWedThuFri9:30-10:00a10:00-10:30a10:30-11:00a11:00-11:30a11:30-noon12:00-noon12:30-1:00p13:00-1:30p13:30-2:00p14:00-2:30p14:30-3:00p15:00-3:30p15:30-4:00pCS452-01CS452-01CS452-02CS452-02CS452-01-LabCS452-02-LabOfficeOfficeOffice

Reserve 15-minute blocks of office hour at Calendly.

Course Description and Objectives

After successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

Write a program that effectively utilizes process management system calls and inter process communication
Describe multi-threaded program execution on modern multi-core processors, and the use of concurrent control mechanism
Describe memory management concepts and the metrics used to evaluate their relative performance
Describe filesystem implementation and storage space management

Prerequisites

Basic hardware concepts, one of the following courses
- CIS251: Computer Organization and Assembly Language
C or C++ programming skill, one of the following courses
- CIS241: System-Level Programming and Utilities

Textbook(s)

Option 1: Classic

The second edition (left image above) is available for purchase. The first edition (right image above) is available as a free online book from O'Reilly technical books.

When logging in to O'Reilly website it may ask you to authenticate via the GVSU Library.

Option 2: Free Online

Prof. Kurmas used a free online book by Arpaci-Dusseau for his CS452 sections.

Graded Activities

Grading Item	Percentage (tentative)
Labs	17%
Lab participation	3%
Programming Assignments	20%
Homework/Quizzes	20%
Midterm Exam	20%
Final Exam	20%

Grading Scale

Grade	Minimum	Grade	Minimum	Grade	Minimum
		A	>=93	A-	>= 90
B+	>= 87	B	>= 83	B-	>= 80
C+	>= 77	C	>= 73	C-	>= 70
D+	>= 67	D	>= 60	F	< 60

Course Policies

Academic Honesty: All students are expected to adhere to the academic honesty standards set forth by Grand Valley State University. In addition, students in this course are expected to adhere to the academic honesty guidelines as set forth by the School of Computing and Information Systems, the details of which can be found online
Unless previous arrangements have been made, all assignments (homework & programming projects) are due at the beginning of class on the due date. The instructor will not accept late assignments.
Lab reports must be typed. To provide a context that helps your instructor to understand your answer, include the original question text from the lab handout before providing your answer
Programs should include acknowledgments/citations for any work that is not your own. Please follow stylistic guidelines you have learned in introductory courses (documentation, appropriate comments, coding style, formatting, etc.)
The course is also subject to the GVSU policies listed at this page
Please see me if you have any special accommodations that need to be considered

Course Outline and Schedule

The reading materials:

The SIL column refers to section number from the Silberschatz textbook first edition
The ARP column includes links to PDF files from Arpaci-Dusseau online book

Week OfTopicReading

SILARP

1Aug 31Introduction, OS structures1-2

dialogue-virtualization.pdf

2Sep 7Process concepts & Operations3.1-3.3

cpu-intro.pdf

cpu-api.pdf

3Sep 14Inter Process Communication3.4-3.6

4Sep 21Threads, parallelism, multi-threaded models & programming4.1-4.5

threads-intro.pdf

threads-api.pdf

5Sep 28CPU scheduling algorithms, multi-core scheduling5.1-5.6