Handouts and Homework

Handouts

• Setting up CVS (quick start guide)
• Synchronization Primitives: Implementation and Examples
• Synchronization Problems
• Queuing Theory References
• Scanned section from "Computer Architecture: A quantitative approach" second edition by Hennesey and Patterson
  
• A bunch of resources on Queuing Theory
• Byzantine Generals Problem/Agreement
• The Byzantine Generals Problem. Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol 4, No. 3, July 1982, Pages 382-401
• Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Miguel Castro and Barbara Liskov. In Proceedings of th Third Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), February 1999.
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Steven Raymond

Homework

As a reminder, homework is strongly recommended, but not required or graded. Here are homeworks from previous offerings of the course.

• HW1 and solutions
• HW2 and solutions
• HW3 and solutions
• HW4 and solutions
• HW5 and solutions

Exams

• Spring 2006 exams
  
• Midterm #1: March 8, 2006 4:00-5:30pm, 10 Evans (A-P) and 2 LeConte (R-Z)
  
• Solutions
• Midterm #2: April 26, 2006 4:00-5:30pm, 10 Evans (A-P) and 2 LeConte (R-Z)
• Solutions
• Final Exam group #17:  Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:30-3:30pm, BECHTEL AUDITORIUM
  

• HKN offers free tutoring and old exams for this class.
  Location: 290 Cory (EE), 345 Soda (CS)
  Hours: M-F 10am-4pm
  Online: http://hkn.berkeley.edu/
• Past Exams (for studying and preparation)
• Fall 2005 midterm #1 / solutions
• Fall 2005 midterm #2 / solutions
• Spring 2004 midterm / solutions
• Spring 2003 midterm #1 / solutions
• Spring 2003 midterm #2 / solutions
  
• Spring 2003 sample midterm #2 / solutions
  
• Fall 2002 midterm #1 solutions
• Fall 2002 midterm  #2 solutions
  
• Spring 2002 midterm / solutions
  
• Spring 2001 midterm / solutions
• Spring 2000 midterm #1 solutions
• Spring 2000 midterm #2 solutions
• Fall 1999 midterm #1 / solutions
• Fall 1999 midterm #2 / solutions
• Fall 1999 sample midterm / solutions
• Spring 1999 midterm / solutions(ps)
• Spring 1997 midterm / solutions
• Spring 1996 midterm / solution