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Course Information. Andy Wang COP 5611 Advanced Operating Systems. Contact Information. Andy Wang ( awang@cs.fsu.edu ) Office: 264 Love Building Office hours: Monday 1:30 – 2:30pm Friday 1:30 – 2:30pm (also by appointments)

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  1. Course Information Andy Wang COP 5611 Advanced Operating Systems

  2. Contact Information • Andy Wang (awang@cs.fsu.edu) • Office: 264 Love Building • Office hours: Monday 1:30 – 2:30pm Friday 1:30 – 2:30pm (also by appointments) • Class website: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~awang/courses/cop5611_s2004

  3. Objectives • Become exposed to classic and current operating systems literature • Gain experience in doing OS research • Develop projects that lead to publishable results

  4. Prerequisites • COP 4610 (operating systems) • CDA 3101 (computer organizations) • Knowledge of the UNIX environment • Proficiency in C

  5. Course Materials • Lecture notes and papers (posted on the class website) • No required textbooks

  6. Recommended Textbooks • Tanenbaum and Van Steen, Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms • Singhal and Shivaratri, Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems

  7. Background Textbooks • Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems • Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne, Operating System Concepts • Nutt, Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective

  8. Kernel-Hacking Aids • Nutt, Kernel Projects for Linux • Kernighan, Ritchie, The C Programming Language • Maxwell, Linux Core Kernel Commentary

  9. Grading • Paper summaries and critiques 5% • Project 30% • Peer evaluation of projects 5% • Exam 1 10% • Exam 2 10% • Final 30%

  10. Summaries and Critiques • Ten one-page summaries and critiques on either assigned papers, papers from the following venues, or from other venues with prior approval: • Journals: ACM TOCS, IEEE TOCS • Conferences: SOSP, OSDI, HotOS, FAST, Usenix Annual Technical Conference, and SIGOPS

  11. Summaries and Critiques • One due each week of class, for the first 10 weeks • Need to address the following: • Summary of major innovations • What are some intriguing aspects of the paper? • How can the research be improved?

  12. Project • You need to develop a project either on your own or in teams of two or three • Goal: • Publishable results

  13. Types of Papers • Survey papers • Position papers • Simulation papers • Measurement papers • System papers

  14. Some Example Projects • Feasibility of using sound cues for debugging operating systems • Feasibility study of applying economic models for distributed resource management

  15. Some Possible Projects • Simulation study of energy-efficient RAIDs • Feasibility study of life-long storage of sensory inputs • Survey study of current logging schemes for very large data sets • Survey study of mobility models • Trace study of mobility patterns

  16. Project Proposal • Due on the 5th week • 10-minute presentation • 2-page written proposal • Motivation • The state-of-the-art • Methodology • Expected results • Timeline

  17. Project Proposal Include: • Some references • Division of labor amongst teams

  18. Project Presentation • During the last two weeks of the course • 15-20 minutes • 14-page (max) written paper due by the last lecture (double column, 10-pt font) • Summary and critique on two other projects, not including yours

  19. Exams • In-class and closed-book, unless specified otherwise • Essays and short answers • Open research questions

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