Course Description

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Lecture Material

It is assumed that the following course material is being made available to students of SUNY at Buffalo for use in the courses offered by the Department of Computer Science.
They are meant for instructional use only.

Date	Topic	Reading material	Notes/comments
8/31	First day handout; introduction to Operating Systems	Intro
9/2	Process model: Process description and control	Process
9/6	Project 1 discussion		Demo: fork( )
9/14	Thread model: Posix thread API	Thread	Demo: thread functions
			Function pointer sample usage
9/16	Interprocess communication	IPC	Unix Pipe demo
9/21	IPC & LMC  IPC (Lecture by Scott)	SantaElfIPC	An almost correct solution
9/28	Process scheduling	Sched
9/30	Queueing analysis	QA	Supplementary Material
10/4	Project 2 discussion; Memory managment	MMgt
10/12	Deadlock management	DM	Sample questions
10/14	Exam Review
10/19	Exam #1
10/21	Deadlock example continued;	Example
	File System	FileSys
10/25	Disk Scheduling	DiskIO

Project Descriptions:

Project 1: Concurrency using Unix processes and Pthreads

Project 2: Exercises in concurrency and IPC models

Helpful links:

Unix programming

Posix Thread Programming

An Implementation of Posix Thread Library

 C++ tutorial from MIT

 Recitation Coverage

Week of	Recitation Topic
8/30	No recitations: first week
9/6	Fundmentals of C/C++; Compile tool chain; machines to work on

Office Hours

Name	Office Hours	Location
Scott Sttembre
Hanifi Gunes
Yi Tang