Professor: Adriana Iamnitchi (Anda) Class time and location: MW 3:05pm-4:20pm, CPR127 Office Hours: MW 1-2:30pm or by email appointment Office: ENB 334 Email: anda at cse usf edu Teaching Assistant: Paul Anderson Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00pm in ENB 327 Tutorials: M 5:30-6:30pm and W 1:30-2:30 pm in ENB 220 (Linux/C4 Lab) (approx. every other week) Email: paanders at mail usf edu

Textbook: Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 3rd Edition Andrew S Tanenbaum Albert S Woodhull Publisher: Prentice Hall Year: 2006 ISBN 0-13-142938-8

This is an introductory undergraduate course in operating systems, emphasizing the core operating system concepts of processes and threads, concurrency and synchronizations, file systems, and virtual memory.

Workload. This is a demanding course. There are three required projects, two  midterm tests, and one final exam after classes end. All exams are in-class, cumulative and closed books. In addition to the projects, there will be optional problem sets that will not be graded. However, about half of the exam questions are drawn from the problem sets.

Topics. The course covers five primary topic areas.

• Concepts in operating systems. Operating system services, operating system structure, processors and processes, protected kernels, traps, interrupts, processes, and threads.
• Concurrency, synchronization, and communication. Threads, mutual exclusion, events, scheduling, and deadlock. Implementing and using synchronization.
• Input/Output systems.
  
• Memory management. Address spaces, protection, virtual address translation, control of memory management hardware, and physical memory management.
• File systems. The storage hierarchy. File and directory structures, file cache management, dealing with disks, failure and recovery, access control and security.

Syllabus

Other Course Policies: We will be observing all university policies regarding religious holidays and disability policies. Any student with a disability is encouraged to meet with me privately during the first week of class to discuss accommodations. Each student must bring a current Memorandum of Accommodations from the Office of Student Disability Services that is prerequisite for receiving accommodations. Accommodated examinations through the Office of Student Disability Services require two weeks notice. All course documents are available in alternate format if requested in the student's Memorandum of Accommodations. For any special accommodations, please see me during the first week of classes. For information regarding religious holidays, please see http://isis.fastmail.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm.

Please make sure that you turn off your cellular phones, iPods, walkie-talkies and other such cool gadgets during all classes (lectures and examinations).

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