CS 162: Operating Systems and Systems Programming

Instructors: Neil Kulkarni, Akshat J. Gokhale
Lecture: MTuWTh 3:30 - 5:00 PM PT


Schedule (Tentative)

WeekDates#LectureReadingsSectionHomeworkProjectEventOther Deadlines
106/210Intro: Course Policies, Overview (Live Lecture) [pdf] [ppt]Berkeley websiteRelease HW0: Intro
06/221Overview, User/Kernel virtualization, HW management, protected sharing [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 161C/C Review Session (Optional, 6-8:00PM)
06/232Four Fundamental Concepts of Operating Systems [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 2Section 0: Tools, x86, GDB [Code] [Solutions] [Q7 Walkthrough]
06/243Abstractions 1: Threads and Processes [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 4HW0 DueZoom Student Mixer (Optional, 6-7:00PM)Autograder Registration Deadline
06/25Section 1: OS Concepts, Processes, Threads [Solutions] [Q6 Walkthrough]Release HW1: ListsRelease Project 0: Introduction to PintosPre-semester Survey Deadline
06/26
06/27Group Registration Form Due
206/28No classes (Juneteenth)
06/294/5Abstractions 2-3: Files and I/O, IPC, Pipes, and Sockets [Lec4 pdf] [Lec4 ppt] [Lec5 pdf] [Lec5 ppt]A&D Ch 3HW1 Due
06/306Synchronization 1: Concurrency and Mutual Exclusion [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 5.1-5.3,
Mars Pathfinder Priority Inversion,
Toyota Uncontroller Acceleration
Section 2: Files, Pipes, Signals, Dup, Sockets [Solutions]Release HW2: Shell
07/017Synchronization 2: Semaphores (Con't), Lock Implementation, Atomic Instructions [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 5.4-5.7Project 0 Due
07/02Section 3: Synchronization [Solutions]Release Project 1: User ProgramsDrop Deadline/Week 2 Survey Due
07/03
07/04Midterm Conflict Form Due
307/05No classes (Fourth of July)
07/068Synchronization 3: Atomic Instructions (Con't), Monitors, Readers/Writers [pdf] [ppt]HW2 DueDesign Doc Due
07/079Synchronization 4: Readers/Writers (Con't), Process Structure, Device Drivers [pdf] [ppt]Section 4: Condition Variables, Sockets [Solutions]Release HW3: Synchronization
07/0810Scheduling 1: Concepts and Classic Policies [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 7.1 - 7.3
07/09Section 5: Scheduling [Solutions]Week 3 Survey Due
07/10
07/11
407/1211Scheduling 2: Scheduling Case Studies, Realtime Scheduling, Forward Progress [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 7.4 & 7.6-7.7
07/1312Scheduling 3: Performance, Deadlock [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 6HW3 Due
07/14No classes (Midterm prep)Section 6: Scheduling, Deadlock [Solutions]Code and Final Report DueProctoring Exceptions Due/
Group Evals Due
07/15No classes (Midterm prep)Midterm Review (Optional, 6-8:00PM)
07/16MidtermNo sectionRelease Project 2: ThreadsMidterm Exam (5-7:00PM)
07/17
07/18Midsemester Survey Due
507/1913Memory 1: Address Translation & Virtual Memory [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 8
07/2014Memory 2: Virtual Memory (Con't), Caching and TLBs [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 9Release HW4: HTTP ServerDesign Doc Due
07/2115Memory 3: Caching and TLBs (Con't), Demand Paging [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 10 Section 7: Virtual Memory, Caching [Solutions]
07/2216Memory 4: Demand Paging Policies [pdf] [ppt]
07/23Section 8: Paging [Solutions]Week 5 Survey Due
07/24
07/25Final Conflict Form Due
607/2617General I/O, Storage Devices [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 12
07/2718General I/O (Con't), Storage Devices, Performance [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 7.5
07/2819Filesystems 1: Performance (Cont'), Queueing Theory, Filesystem Design [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 11 & 13Section 9: I/O Devices [Solutions]
07/2920Filesystems 2: Filesystem Design (Con't), Filesystem Case Studies [pdf] [ppt]HW4 Due
07/30Section 10: File Systems [Solutions]Release HW5: MallocCode & Final Report DueWeek 6 Survey/
Group Evals Due
07/31Release Project 3: Filesys
08/01
708/0221Filesystems 3: Filesystem Case Studies (Con't), Buffering, Reliability, Transactions [pdf] [ppt]A&D Ch 14,
NFS filesystem
08/0322Transactions (Con't), End-to-End Arguments, Distributed Decision Making [pdf] [ppt]End to EndDesign Doc Due
08/0423Networking and TCP/IP [pdf] [ppt]Van Jacobsen's TCP paperSection 11: File Systems, Journaling [Solutions]
08/0524RPC, Distributed Storage, Key Value Stores (Live Lecture) [pdf] [ppt]Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit (Ch 1, 2, 4),
Dist Sys: RPC,
Chord Paper,
Amazon Dynamo
08/06Section 12 [Solutions]Final Review (Optional. 7-9:00PM)Week 7 Survey/
Final Proctoring Exemptions
08/07Section12.5 (Walkthrough Only)
08/08HW5 Due
808/09No classes (Final prep)Final Review (Optional)
08/10FinalFinal Exam (5-8:00PM)
08/11No section
08/12Special Topics Lecture CANCELLED
08/13No sectionCode DueGroup Evals Due
08/14Booting PintOSRelease PintOS Fun SU20 Version
(Examples: cs162proj.dsk, cs162proj.vmdk)
08/15

Week 1 Discussion Schedule

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30 DIS101: Online (Sean) DIS105: Online (Sean)
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-1:00
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3:30-4:00
4:00-4:30
4:30-5:00
5:00-5:30 DIS102: Online (Rahul) DIS106: Online (Rahul)
5:30-6:00
6:00-6:30 DIS103: Online (Animesh) DIS104: Online (Edward) DIS107: Online (Animesh) DIS108: Online (Edward)
6:30-7:00
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7:30-8:00
8:00-8:30
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00

Please note that all events start 10 minutes after they are listed on the above calendar due to Berkeley time.


Office Hours

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