Class Notes

CSCI 420 - Operating Systems & Concurrent Computing.

When; 8:10 - 9:00, MWF, Fall 2005.
Where; McRey 317.
Office Hours; by prior arrangement.
Text; Operating System Concepts, seventh eddition, Avi Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne.
Course Syllabus.
Project Assignments;
1. Assignment #1, Adding a System Call to the Linux Kernel, due 9/23/2005. Additional information in kernel-build.pdf.
2. Assignment #2, Matrix Multiplication with threads in C. due 10/7/2005.
3. Assignment #3, Hoare and Mesa Monitors, due 11/11/2005.
4. Assignment #4, Last Come/First Served CPU Scheduler, due 12/08/2005.
Lecture Slides;