CS 341: Calendar

Calendar

Expect the calendar to evolve incrementally. Future events are merely a projection; read them with a mind open to change.

1. Preliminaries, Processes, Programming
Date	Topic	Paper	Project
Monday 26 Oct	Topic: topic The Plan
Tuesday 27 Oct	Topic: topic Processes, Kernel/User Separation, Syscalls
Wednesday 28 Oct			code Assign: Syscalls code Workshop: Syscalls
Thursday 29 Oct	Topic: topic Process API, Interprocess Communication	Paper: The UNIX Time-sharing System
Friday 30 Oct			code Checkpoint: Syscalls
2. Sharing the CPU and Memory
Date	Topic	Paper	Project
Monday 2 Nov	Topic: topic CPU Scheduling		code Due: Syscalls Assign: Goals
Tuesday 3 Nov	Topic: topic Virtual Memory: Address Translation		code Assign: Shell Checkpoint: Goals
Wednesday 4 Nov
Thursday 5 Nov	Topic: topic Virtual Memory: TLBs, Page Tables, Swap	Paper: Hints for Computer System Design
Friday 6 Nov			code Checkpoint: Shell
3. Concurrency and Threads
Date	Topic	Paper	Project
Monday 9 Nov	Topic: topic Virtual Memory: TLBs, Page Tables, Swap		code Checkpoint: Shell
Tuesday 10 Nov	Topic: topic Threads and Locks
Wednesday 11 Nov	Topic: topic Virtual Memory Workshop		code Due: Shell
Thursday 12 Nov	Topic: topic Multicore Scheduling	Paper: Managing Contention for Shared Resources on Multicore Processors	code Assign: mprotect
Friday 13 Nov
4. More Concurrency
Date	Topic	Paper	Project
Monday 16 Nov			code Checkpoint: mprotect
Tuesday 17 Nov	Topic: topic More Locks
Wednesday 18 Nov	Topic: topic Condition Variables, Semaphores, Barriers		code Checkpoint: mprotect
Thursday 19 Nov	Topic: topic Concurrency Bugs	Paper: Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs
Friday 20 Nov			code Due: mprotect
5. IO, Storage
Date	Topic	Paper	Project
Monday 23 Nov			Assign: Open Final Project
Tuesday 24 Nov	Topic: topic IO and Storage
Wednesday 25 Nov			Checkpoint: Open Final Project
Thursday 26 Nov Thanksgiving Break
6. File Systems
Date	Topic	Paper	Project
Monday 30 Nov	Topic: topic File Systems
Tuesday 1 Dec	Topic: topic File System Performance	Paper: The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System	Checkpoint: Open Final Project
Wednesday 2 Dec	Topic: topic Project Drop-in Hours
Thursday 3 Dec	Topic: topic File System Safety and More Topic: topic Project Drop-in Hours
7. Beyond
Date	Topic	Paper	Project
Monday 7 Dec	Topic: topic Virtual Machines Topic: topic Project Drop-in Hours	Paper: Xen and the Art of Virtualization	Checkpoint: Open Final Project
Tuesday 8 Dec	Topic: topic Project Drop-in Hours
Wednesday 9 Dec	Topic: topic Project Presentations		Checkpoint: Open Final Project
Thursday 10 Dec	Topic: topic Project Presentations
Date	Topic	Paper	Project
Monday 14 Dec Reading / Exam Period
Tuesday 15 Dec Reading / Exam Period
Wednesday 16 Dec Reading / Exam Period
Thursday 17 Dec Reading / Exam Period
Friday 18 Dec Reading / Exam Period			Due: Goals Due: Open Final Project