CSC280: Operating System Principles

Salem State College

2008 Fall

Instructor: Beifang Yi (website, email)

Syllabus(pdf, html): for course office hours, rules, reports, grading policy...,

Course schedule (pdf, html).

Important Announcements:

Assignment 7: Distributed System ... (Deadline: 12/14/2008/MIDNIGHT, email submission) (NEW).

NO LATER SUBMISSION WILL BE ACCPETED.

Projects (NEW)

Deadlines:

submitted by 12/11: 100% + 5% (bonus)
submitted by 12/22/MIDNIGHT: 100%
submitted after 12/22/MIDNIGHT: 0.)

Important notice on the projects....
Project 4: Client-Server Communication (zipped file for sample code...)
Project 5: LRU/FIFO Paging Implementation (zipped file for sample code...)
Project 6: Banker's Algorithm Implementation (zipped file for sample code...)

Assignments:

Assignment 6: about mass-storage and file systems (Due on 12/9/2008,Tuesday, email submission)
Assignment 5 (Due on 12/3/2008, Wednesday, in class)
Assignment 4 (Due 11/19/2008, Wednesday)
Assignment 3 (Due 10/22/2008, Wednesday)
Assignment 2 /Due/ 10/15/2008, Wednesday
Assignment 1/due 9/26/2008, Friday
Assignment 0/due 9/12/2008, Friday

Projects:

Project#3 (due on 11/13/2008, Thursday)
Project2 (Due 10/16/2008, Thursday)
Project #1a and Project#1b (Both Due on 10/3/2008, Friday)
Project#1a's Word file
Project 0/due 9/18/2008, Thursday:

Reading/Practice Assignments (No Submissions):

Reading List for Distributed System and others....
Reading Lists for Mass-Storage Management/File Systems (Ch10/11/12/13)
Reading Lists/Assigments for chapter9
Reading Lists/Assigments for chapter7 and chapter 8
Reading Lists/Assigments for chapter5 and chapter 6
Reading Lists/Assigments for chapter3 and chapter 4
Reading Lists/Assigments for chapter1 and chapter 2.

Resources:

Click HERE for lecture slides/notes, solutions, and .........
BACI homepage
Distributed BACI homepage
NACHOS website
JAVA SE Download website
JAVA SE API/doc, JDK 6/documentation,
VMware website
Producer-Consumer Simulator
Semaphore Simulator
Reader Writer Simulator
Message Passing Simulator
Eisenberg-McGuire Algorithm Simulator