CS3500: Operating Systems

Course information

• When: Jul-Nov 2023

• Lectures: Slot D

• Where: SSB134 for the lectures and DCF for the lab

• Teaching Assistants: YSS Narasimha Naidu, Sasubilli Yuvan, Bharath Reddy, Aashay Bharatkumar Shah, Ashok Rajeev, Ayush Kumar Mall Chinmay Badjatya, Devmalya Roy, Hrishikesh Tiwari, Mathew Thomas, Prince Dineshbhai Patel, Susmit Jaiswal, Tulsi Ram Meena

Textbooks/References

• Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau. Operating systems: Three easy pieces. Arpaci-Dusseau Books, 2018.

Course Content

• Virtualizing the CPU: Chapters 4-9 of the text

• Virtualizing the memory: Chapters 13-22 of the text

• Concurrency: Chapters 26-32 of the text

• Persistence: Chapters 36-40 of the text

Labs

The lab exercises will either be standalone implementations of OS features (e.g. scheduling, file system, etc), or changing the xv6 OS, e.g., to add new system calls, change the memory management scheme, etc. We shall be using the RISC-V version of xv6, see here.

Grading

• Quiz-I and II: 10% each

• Final exam: 30%

• Labs: 40% split over seven assignments

• Tutorials: 8% split over two

• Class participation: 2%

Important Dates

• Quiz-I: 31 Aug

• Quiz-II: 12 Oct

• Final exam: 22 Nov

Dates as per the the academic calendar

Schedule