- 9/24-10/6
- Introduction and review of basic concepts: processes, threads,
and synchronization (Chapter 4, SG, Birrell Threads Paper, Cthreads document),
variable weight and first class user-level threads, thread implementations.
- 10/8-10/13
- Advanced synchronization primitives: monitors and
serializers.
- 10/15-10/22
- Parallel machines, their programming. Synchronization and
communication in parallel systems (parallel machines overview, Anderson paper,
URPC paper).
- 10/27
- Homework 1, other problems and review.
- 10/29
- Midterm.
- 11/3-11/10
- Distributed systems (Chapters 15, 16, SG, message
passing, Remote procedure calls (Birell/Nelson paper).
- 11/12-11/19
- Distributed file systems (Chapter 17, SG). Sprite
paper. Distributed Shared Memory.
- 11/24-11/26
- Introduction to real-time systems.
- 12/1
- Protection and security.
- 12/3
- Review, homework 2 and other problems.