The course schedule is tentative and subject to change*.
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| Week | Wednesday | Friday |
| Week 1 | Jan 27 Lec 1: Introduction, process abstraction [slides] Reading: Intro and Process and Process API Proj 0a and Proj 0b out |
Jan 29 |
| Week 2 | Feb 3 Lec 2a: LDE [slides] Lec 2b: CPU virtualization I [slides] Lec 2's note [note] Reading: LDE and Scheduling (intro) |
Feb 5 Proj 0a due Proj 1 out |
| Week 3 | Feb 10 Lec 3: CPU virtualization II [slides] Lec 3's note [note] Reading: MLFQ, Multi-core Sched (Linux), man 7 sched, and Lottery (optional) |
Feb 12 |
| Week 4 | Feb 17 Lec 4: Memeory virtualization I [slides] Lec 4's note [note] Reading: Address spaces, Address translation, Paging, TLB, and Adv. PTs |
Feb 19 |
| Week 5 | Feb 24 Lec 5: Memory virtualization II [slides] Lec 5's note [note] Reading: Beyond physical memory: Mechanisms, (Caching) Policy, and ARC paper (FAST'03) |
Feb 26 Proj 1 due Proj 2 out |
| Week 6 | Mar 3 Lec 6: Midterm review [slides] [slides+notes] |
Mar 5 |
| Week 7 | Mar 10 Midterm exam |
Mar 12 Midterm stats |
| Week 8 | Mar 17 Lec 7: Concurrency I [slides] Lec 7's note [note] Reading: Threads, Concurrency intro, Locks, and Semaphores |
Mar 19 |
| Week 9 | Mar 24 Lec 8: Concurrency II [slides] Lec 8's note [note] Reading: CV, Deadlocks |
Mar 26 Proj 2 due Proj 3 out |
| Week 10 | Mar 31 Lec 9: Persistence I [slides] Lec 9's note [note] Reading: HDDs, Disk sched, and SSDs |
Apr 2 Go basics: Go tutorial [video] [slides] [handout1] [handout2] |
| Week 11 | Apr 7 Lec 10: Persistence II [slides] [slides+notes] Reading: File system intro, file system implementation, and RAID |
Apr 9 Proj 0b due |
| Week 12 | Apr 14 Lec 11: Distributed systems I: RPC, MapReduce [slides] Reading: MapReduce paper |
Apr 16 Proj 3 due Proj 4 out |
| Week 13 | Apr 21 Lec 12: Distributed systems II: GFS, NFS [slides] Lec 12's note [note] Reading: GFS paper, and NFS |
Apr 23 Proj 5 out |
| Week 14 | Apr 28 Final review [slides] [slides+notes] |
Apr 30 |
| Week 15 | May 5 Final exam 7:20 pm - 10:00 pm |
May 7 Proj 4 due Proj 5 due |
*: Color codings:
| -Virtualization- | -Concurrency- | -Persistence- | -Distributed Systems- |
