Operating Systems 2019

Course Code: EDA093 / DIT401 Operating systems lp1 HT19
Number of Credits: 7.5 hp

The course is offered by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Course purpose

The course provides an introduction to the design and implementation of operating systems. Topics covered include: concurrent processes, resource management, deadlocks, memory management, virtual memory, processor scheduling, disk scheduling, file systems, distributed file systems, and security issues in operating systems. The labs part emphasizes hands-on experience with operating systems design. Students practice by using and constructing essential modules in operating systems, such as multiprogramming, implementation of UNIX-like shell functionality and concurrency.

Learning objectives:

After successful completion of the course, participants will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of

1. The core functionality of modern operating systems: Processes/threads, scheduling, virtual memory, and file systems, aspects of parallelism, kernels, shells, microkernels, virtual machines.
2. Key concepts and algorithms in operating system implementations: synchronization, deadlock-avoidance/prevention, memory management, processor scheduling, disk scheduling, virtual machines, file systems organization.
3. Implementation of simple OS components.
4. The participants will also be able to:
   • appreciate the design space and trade-offs involved in implementing an operating system.
   • Write C programs that interface to the operating system at the system call level.
   • Implement a piece of system-level code in the C programming language.
   • Some programing using multithread synchronization constructs.

Link to the syllabus Chalmers.
Link to the syllabus GU.

Course literature

• Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum (fourth edition)

Reading Instructions

The course is taught by

• Vincenzo Gulisano (www.cse.chalmers.se/~vinmas/, vinmas#at#chalmers.se)
• Marina Papatriantafilou (www.cse.chalmers.se/~ptrianta/, ptrianta#at#chalmers.se)
• Romaric Duvignau (http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~duvignau/, duvignau#at#chalmers.se) 

The teaching assistants are

• Amir Keramatian, amirke#at#chalmers.se
• Hannaneh Najdataei, hannajd#at#chalmers.se
• Dimitris Palyvos-Giannas, palyvos#at#chalmers.se

Guest lecturer

• Magnus Almgren (http://www.chalmers.se/sv/personal/Sidor/magnus-almgren.aspx, magnus.almgren#at#chalmers.se) 

Student representatives

• Michel Folkemark
• Qingyun Gu
• Badiuzzaman Azzarfan Bin Iskhandar

Schedule

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Lectures and Schedule