Power point slides of each lecture will be posted before the classes. All video links are from last year class.

OS Structures (4 lectures)

1. OS Structures [video]
2. SPIN [video]
3. Exokernel [video]
4. Microkernel [video]
5. Xen [video] [video (continued)]

Review Questions

Synchronization, Communication, and Scheduling in Parallel Systems (4 lectures)

1. Spin Locks [video]
2. Barriers [video]
3. Lightweight RPC
4. Cache Affinity [video]
5. Tornado [video]

Review Questions

Communication Mechanisms in Distributed Systems (4 lectures)

1. Scalar Clocks [video]
2. Limits to Communication [video]
3. Active Networks [video]
4. Building Communication System from Components[video]

Review Questions

Distributed Objects and Middleware (4 lectures)

1. Distributed Objects and Middleware[video]
2. Distributed Objects and Java
3. Distributed Objcets and APllications [video]

Review Questions

Midterm

Review Questions:

• "Town Hall" Review Questions
• Example Midterm, Spring 2007 <- This is the best model of what to expect on the midterm.
• Example Midterm, Fall 2005 <- This is the best model of what to expect on the midterm.
• Example Midterm 1
• Example Midterm 2
• Example Midterm 3

Distributed Shared Memory and File Systems (3 lectures)

1. Cluster Memory Management [video]
2. Distributed Shared Memory [video]
3. Serverless File Systems [video]

Review Questions

Multimedia (2 lectures)

1. Multimedia Disk Schedulings
2. Multimedia Sensitive CPU Scheduling [video]

Review Questions

Failures, Consistency, and Recovery (4 lectures)

1. Recoverable Virtual Memory
2. Rio Vista [video]
3. QuickSilver [video]

Review Questions

System Support for Internet Scale Computing (2 lectures)

1. Web Services [video]
2. Coral Content Distribution Network [video]

Review Questions

Security (2 lectures)

1. Introduction to Security [video]
2. Security in the Andrew Filesystem [video]

Review Questions

Review Questions:

• "Town Hall" Review Questions Part II
• "Town Hall" Review Questions
• Example Final, Fall 2005 <- This is the best model of what to expect on the midterm.
• Example Final 1
• Example Final 2