CS 6210
Advanced Operating Systems
Spring 2007
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- Instructor: Kishore Ramachandran (rama@cc.gatech.edu)
- Office: Klaus 2402
- Office hours: TBD
- TA #1: Dave Lillethun
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- please include the number 6210 in the email subject) - Office: Embedded and Pervasive Lab (Klaus 2201) - office hours will be held in the alcove just outside the lab
- Office hours: Mon 1-2:30pm, Thurs 11am-Noon, or by appointment
- TA #2: Namgeun Jeong
- Office: Embedded and Pervasive Lab (Klaus 2201)
- Swiki: http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu/cs6210-sp07
- Newsgroup: git.cc.class.cs6210
Announcements
April 26, 2007- The part II of final review questions is posted on the Lectures page.
- A questionnaire for the class is here. Please follow the instructions in the questionnaire.
- The date for the final has been finalized (no pun intended). It will be on Monday, April 30 from 6:00-9:00pm.
- Final review questions are posted on the Lectures page.
- Project 4 is up!
- Due to the recent problems with the Warp cluster (which should be mostly fixed now), we will accept Project 2 submissions as late as 11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, March 22. After that, project submissions will not be accepted (at all). Please also note that the Project 3 deadline is unchanged, and is still April 6 (which is sooner than it sounds).
- Although we are not extending the deadline for Project 2, we will accept submissions *without late penalty* as long as they are turned in by 11:59pm on Wednesday, March 21. (That's Eastern *Daylight Savings* time - don't forget to "spring ahead" this weekend!)
- Dave is taking the qualifier exam on Thrusday, March 15 and will therefore not hold office hours that day. He will also not be available at any other time that day (even if he is physically in the lab), nor will he be available to answer emails or newsgroup posts. Additionally, because of Spring Break, he will not be holding any office hours the week of March 19-23, but should be available via email and the newsgroup during that week.
- The broken review question links on the lectures page have been fixed. Three sample midterms have also been added to the page.
- Project 1 demo sign-ups are up! If you have conflicts that you can't make any of the available demo times, please email Dave ASAP. Otherwise, please put your name next to a time here. (Note this is only for Atlanta students. Korea students will sign up for demos with Namgeun separately.)
- Project 2 is posted. It will be due Thursday, March 15.
- The midterm will be held on Thrusday, March 1.
- The lecture video from Tuesday, Jan. 30 is now available in the Lectures section.
- The project submission instructions have been updated. There is no actual change to the submission procedure, but the instructions of hopefully less confusing now.
- Due to technical difficulties on our end, the deadline for the Project 1 Pre-Lab is extended. See the newsgroup for details.
- Project 1 Pre-Lab is posted on the assignments page.
- The class swiki now has paper summary and lecture notes sign-ups.
- The class diagnostic is now online.
Course Description
CS 6210 (Advanced Operating Systems) is a graduate level course that covers in detail many advanced topics in operating system design and implementation. It starts with topics such as operating systems structuring, multithreading and synchronization and then moves on to systems issues in parallel and distributed computing systems. There is no textbook for this course. Rather, we will read and discuss a number of important research papers related to these topics. For each paper that is covered in class , students are expected to gain a solid understanding of the problem that is addressed by the paper, and the solution proposed by the authors. Papers listed under "Required Background" will be assigned for self study. Students must carefully read the self study papers because the understanding of their content may be essential for the papers that will be covered in class. Papers listed under "Optional Readings are for reference only. These papers will cover topics that extend or supplement the material in papers that are covered in class. Students will be expected to have some understanding of the results in these papers but will not be tested on them.