sp09/Students/info - Course Announcements ======= 5/13/09 Course and exam grades are posted in Students/coursegrades. ======= 5/08/09 Review slides for midterm 3 have been posted online http://lbs.cs.berkeley.edu/course/cs162-sp09/midterm3-review-05-07-09.pdf ======= 5/06/09 Prof. Smith will be available in the afternoon on Monday, 5/11 for an office hour if anyone is planning to show up - please email him if you want an appointment. He will not be there for his regular 11am office hour. If no one wants to meet, he may not be in the office on Monday until the exam time. ======= 5/05/09 There will be a midterm review at 306 Soda from 7:00PM to 8:00PM on 5/07/2009 (Thursday) ======= 5/05/09 Please check whether your lecture notes assignment has been posted online at the following URL. If not and you believe you did submit the lecture notes, please send an email to the TA to clarify. http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp09/lectures.html ======= 5/03/09 Reminder - last midterm is Monday evening, May 11, 7pm, 306 Soda. The exam will be cumulative. There will be no lecture on May 11. ======= 5/03/09 Prof. Smith has put pdfs of a large number of additional technical papers into the Readings directory, along with a file ReadingList, which lists what the papers are. These papers are backup material to what was covered in lecture. You may wish to look at some of them; in particular, the Goldberg article talks about Virtual Machines. ======= 4/28/09 Jingtao will be late for the first discussion session due to a schedule conflict. He will arrive at Evan Hall at around 1:30PM. Please go to the second discussion session between 4:00PM - 5:00PM at 118 Barrows if you are interested in the 'full version'. ======= 4/27/09 Exams were handed back today in class. Prof. Smith has the exams and will bring them to the next 2-3 lectures - you can get them from him in lecture. ======= 4/27/09 Discussion 2 has been moved from 285 Cory to 118 Barrows for the rest of the semester. ======= 4/16/09 autograder for proj4-test is up and running now. Please sign up the design review meeting in phase 4 for your group ======= 4/13/09 Review slides for midterm 2 have been posted online http://lbs.cs.berkeley.edu/course/cs162-sp09/midterm2-review-04-13-09.pdf ======= 4/13/09 Reminder - midterm, Wednesday, April 15, 7pm, 306 Soda. ======= 4/12/09 There will be a midterm review at 306 Soda from 7:00PM-8:00PM on 4/13/09 (Monday) ======= 4/10/09 Reminder : ps2 (individual assignment) due next Monday 4/13/09 ======= 4/01/09 The Readings directory now has a large number of additional entries. The "introstuff" material is related to what we talked about in the first week. The remaining new material is related to the lectures about I/O devices, and contains most of the figures that Prof. Smith presented in his transparencies. Note that 2-3 of the pdfs are upside-down - they were scanned that way because of folds in the papers. ======= 3/31/09 Jingtao will be out of town between April 6 and April 10, so no discussion session on April 7 ======= 3/25/09 Reminder: proj3-initial-design due next Wednesday (Arpril 1). Please sign-up a design review meeting with Jingtao on next Thursday or Friday (i.e. April 2 or April 3). In addition, autograder is running in test mode for proj3 now (hint: "submit proj3-test") ======= 3/17/09 Please submit your lecture notes in pdf format to include charts if charts or other visualization techniques are used in lecture. ======= 3/16/09 Reminder: there are three submissions due this week - 1. proj2-code, 2. proj2-final-design, 3. group evaluation for proj2. ======= 3/11/09 Exams were handed back today in class. Prof. Smith has the exams and will bring them to the next 2-3 lectures - you can get them from him in lecture. ======= 3/08/09 autograder is running in test submission mode now, please follow similar instructions as we did in phase 1 to test your code (hint - "submit proj2-test"). We have allocated a significately faster machine this time, so you should receive the test results in email within 12 minutes after you submit it. ======= 3/06/09 Instructions on how to submit project 2 inital design doc - - Only one member in the group needs to submit the homework, to minimize prospective confusions, please only designate one member to submit the homework for each group assignment (your group can change the member in charge of homework submission in different assignments) - Create a folder "PROJ2" (upper case) in your home directory, and put your design document - the file name must be "proj2-initial-design.txt", or "proj2-initial-design.pdf". - Create a file named "MY.PARTNERS" under folder PROJ2, put all your group members' computer account name s there (seperated by white space in one line. e.g. "cs162-aa cs162-ab cs162-ac cs162-ad") - Type "submit proj2-initial-design" in directory PROJ2 to submit the homework, you can submit as many times as you want to before the deadline,only the last submission before the deadline counts. - Instructions on submitting future Nachos projects will be similar so we won't post submission instructions for Nachos project in the announcement session from now on. ======= 3/06/09 Design review sign-up form for proj2-initial-design has been posted online, please visit link below to reserve a slot for your group members. All group members are required to show up in the design review session http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp09/review-signup.html ======= 3/04/09 The Midterm 1 will be @306 Soda 7:00PM - 8:30PM TODAY ======= 3/03/09 The fourth batch of Prof. Smith's lecture notes have been posted online. ======= 3/02/09 Slides for today's midterm review session have been posted online at http://lbs.cs.berkeley.edu/course/cs162-sp09/ ======= 3/02/09 No discussion session on 3/03/2009, pleaese spend some time to prepare your midterm 1. Jingtao will be at 417 Soda during discussion session hours for Q&A. Jingtao will post slides used in today's review session later tonight. ======= 2/27/09 Instructions on how to submit problem set 1. - Create a folder named HW2 in your home directory - Your write-up should be named either ps1.txt or ps1.pdf - type "submit ps1" in HW2 directory to submit - ps1 is an individual assignment, every one needs to submit it ======= 2/25/09 Based on feedback for this class, Jingtao has posted his notes in discussion sessions online at the following URL: http://lbs.cs.berkeley.edu/course/cs162-sp09/ ======= 2/25/09 The third batch of Prof. Smith's lecture notes has been posted online. ======= 2/22/09 A new paper, "Linkers and Loaders" by L. Presser and J. White, has been posted online, under Students/Readings directory. ======= 2/22/09 Midterm #1 - reminder - is scheduled for Wednesday, 3/4/09 *in the evening* (7pm) in 306 Soda. There will be a review session Monday, 3/2/09, 7pm, also in 306 Soda. The exam will cover the lecture material up through Monday 3/2 and will be closed book. There will be the regular class on 3/4 also. ======= 2/21/09 Instructions on how to submit the final design doc for proj1 - Create a folder "final" under your "PROJ1" folder in your home dir. - Create a file named "MY.PARTNERS" under folder "final" - Put your final design doc, which should be named "proj1-design.txt" or "proj1-design.pdf" in your "final" folder - Type "submit proj1-final-design" in your "final" folder to submit - **Every team member ** must submit a peer evlaluation form by visiting the following url by next Thursday (2/26/2009) http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp09/cgi-bin/eval.cgi ======= 2/21/09 Instructions on how to submit proj1-code: - Make sure your code runs correctly by submitting a test submitssion. - Create a file named "MY.PARTNERS" within your **nachos** directory - Run the command "submit proj1-code" from within the nachos directory ======= 2/18/09 The Nachos augtograder is running now for test submissions. To save system resource, we only run part of the test cases for task 1-5. Please test task 6 on your own machine. To submit your code for testing, run the command "submit proj1-test" from within the **nachos** directory (i.e. ag, threads will be the immediate sub directories). You can check the current job queue of augtograder from the flollowing url. http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp09/cgi-bin/agqueue.cgi ======= 2/16/09 Uploaded some notes taken by students under the "lectures" section. ======= 2/12/09 Added a "Relevant Links" entry on the sidebar of the class website. ======= 2/11/09 Instructions on how to submit project 1 inital design doc - - Only one member in the group needs to submit the homework, to minimize prospective confusions, please only designate one member to submit the homework for each group assignment (your group can change the member in charge of homework submission in different assignments) - Create a folder "PROJ1" (upper case) in your home directory, and put your design document - the file name must be "proj1-initial-design.txt", or "proj1-initial-design.pdf". - Create a file named "MY.PARTNERS" under folder PROJ1, put all your group members' computer account name s there (seperated by white space in one line. e.g. "cs162-aa cs162-ab cs162-ac cs162-ad") - Type "submit proj1-initial-design" in directory PROJ1 to submit the homework, you can submit as many times as you want to before the deadline,only the last submission before the deadline counts. ======= 2/11/09 The "Design Review Signup" webpage and the "Gropup Evaluation" webpage have been posted online. Please click the links on the sidebar for details. It's required for each gropup to sign-up a design review meeting with the TA on 2/17/2009 or 2/18/2009. ======= 2/09/09 The second part of Prof. Smith's notes has been posted online. ======= 2/09/09 Some job information have been posted in Student/jobs ======= 2/09/09 Two more papers, "threads.pdf" and "monitors.pdf", have been posted online under Students/Readings directory. The second one, i.e. "monitors.pdf", is a **required** reading for this class. ======= 2/08/09 The discusssion sessions on Tuesday (2/10/09) have been cancelled due to the tutorial session on the same date. Please go directly to 306 Soda at 7:00PM for the Nachos Tutorial Session. ======= 2/05/09 The first batch of lecture notes taken by students has been posted online. Please visit the "Lectures" session for details. ======= 2/04/09 The first part of Prof. Smith's lecture notes has been posted online please visit http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp09/lectures.html for details. We will post students' note soon. ======= 2/03/09 Clarifications on homework 1: The simulation ends when the 1000's customer **arrives**, even if there are more events in the event queue. For the flow time computation, please ignore any customers left in the system after the 1000'th customer arrives. (I.e. your computation includes only customers who have completed service and have left the system.) Overhead handling: Please refer to Q6 in the FAQ listed blelow http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/Students/Homework/HW1-faq.txt ======= 2/03/09 Updated the location information for the coming Nachos tutorial session. The tutorial will be held in 306 Soda at 7:00PM on 2/10/2009. Tutorial attendency is optional. ======= 2/03/09 Posted some Nachos related information on the class web site, please select "Projects and Nachos" from the left navigation bar for details. We will send out the SVN group login information for the coming Nachos projects by this Friday. ======= 2/02/09 Instructions on how to submit homework 1 - - Make sure one of your group members has already submitted the project group request form, each group member has logged into his/her account at least once and updated the account information. - Only one member in the group needs to submit the homework, to minimize prospective confusions, please only designate one member to submit the homework for each group assignment (your group can change the member in charge of homework submission in different assignments) - Create a folder "HW1" (upper case) in your home directory, and put your solution files inside - the main program must be "hw1.java", the introduction file must be named "README", the writeup file should be in pure text format or pdf format. Please make sure your program works correctly when invoked with and without arguments. Please feel free to include additional files in your submission when necessary, but please do not include *.class files in your submission. - Create a file named "MY.PARTNERS" under folder HW1, put all your group members' computer account name s there (seperated by white space in one line. e.g. "cs162-aa cs162-ab cs162-ac cs162-ad") - Type "submit hw1" in directory HW1 to submit the homework, you can submit as many times as you want to before the deadline, only the last submission before the deadline counts. ======= 2/02/09 Please verify your personal finger information after you log into your class account, e.g. finger yourself by typing "finger cs162-xx" (replace xx with your own account name. If the information is not correct, you need to change your Gecos information, type "ssh update" and select the third item from the menu - "Change your Gecos" We do not use your finger information to deliver grades, but it's always a good idea to maintain consistent information in your account. ======= 2/02/09 Enhanced the look and feel of the announcements page by using server side scripts ======= 2/01/09 The lecture notes sign-up list has been posted online, please visit http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp09/schedule.html for details. Please send an email to the TA if your name is not on the list or you find any error on the list. The note taking assignment accounts for around 3 percents of the total grade. Please read the class handouts or the information section on this web sites for requirements and deadlines about lecture notes. ======= 1/30/09 The first reader for cs162, i.e. "Nachos Tutorial And Source Code" , is ready now. You can pick up a copy from the copy central shop at Hearst & Euclid . There will be one more reader for this class, we will make an announcement here when it's ready. ======= 1/30/09 Please make sure to log into your cs162 computer account at least once by next Wednesday (Feb 4, 2009). Enter your correct First name, Last name, Student ID, Code name and email address when the system asks for it. If you logged into your account before 6:00PM 1/29/2009, You need to log in **again** at least once by next Wednesday. ======= 1/29/09 The class homework/project schedule has been updated. There is No date change in this update, we just added a few more detailed milestones. Please check it out at http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp09/schedule.html ======= 1/29/09 If you've sent an email to the GSI for additional group members, but still haven't received a reply yet, please send your email again. All the group member requests should have been addressed at this time. ======= 1/29/09 The group sign-up program has been posted online now. Please go to http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp09/section-signup.html to submit your group member information to us (only one submission is needed for each group). ======= 1/28/09 A paper on discrete event simulation, by M.H. MACDOUGALL, has been posted online at Students/Readings/macdougal.pdf Direct web link - http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/Students/Readings/macdougal.pdf ======= 1/20/09 There will be discussion sections today. We will be giving out computer accounts. Don't worry if you miss the meeting - we'll continue giving out accounts next week. The remainder of this web site is still being constructed. Please ignore anything that you saw before today - it was left over from spring, 2008. There will (eventually) be class readers. They are not ready yet. You will be told in class (and in this space) when they are ready. ======= 1/16/09 Welcome to CS162 for Spring 2009!