CSCI 664 Advanced Operating Systems

1. CSCI 664 Advanced Operating Systems 2013 Spring

2. Meeting time & place • 3:30-4:50PM Monday, Wednesday • McGlothlin-Street Hall 002 • http://www.cs.wm.edu/~liqun/teaching/cs664_13s/index.html • May use piazza for discussion

3. Motivation • Prepare you to do system research • OS is the core for system research • Learn how to read and write papers • How to conduct system research (taste, previous research, previous results) • Learn about the past and current research in OS • Important concepts – virtualization, map-reduce, facebook file • Also serve as PhD qualifying exam

4. Expectations • Understand papers well • Do presentation well • Do project well

5. Course structure • Read two (~) papers a week • In total around 21 papers • Grade • 20% quizzes • 10% paper presentation • 20% midterm • 30% final • 20% project

6. Paper Presentation • Fully understand the paper you will present • Try to understand the details • Prepare beforehand – weeks before the presentation date • Presentation - round 50 minutes • You can use other people’s slides, but do understand them.

7. Reading Papers • Everyone is required to read all papers • The exam problems will be about the details in the paper • Read the paper before come to class for better discussion and understanding • Try to think more – learn the new ideas, appreciate the contribution, get the taste

8. Quizzes • We will have quiz for most of the classes – first ten minutes • Questions to test whether you read the paper • Simple questions • Grade leniently, but deduct 3 points for missing a class without valid reasons

9. Projects • A system flavored project – potentially lead to a paper • System is broadly defined • Propose an idea, evaluate it through implementation, simulation, analytical study, and theoretical analysis • I will post the deadline for proposal, project description, mid-point report, and final report