CSE 30341 is the one of the core classes in the Computer Science and Engineering program at the University of Notre Dame. This course introduces all aspects of modern operating systems. Topics include process structure and synchronization, interprocess communication, memory management, file systems, security, I/O, and distributed files systems.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Class Information

Lecture
T/TH 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Location
136 DeBartolo Hall
Mailing List (Class)
fa17-cse-30341-01-group@nd.edu
Mailing List (Staff)
fa17-cse-30341-01-staff-list@nd.edu
Slack
#cse-30341-fa17
GitLab
nd-cse-30341-fa17

Instructor

Instructor
Peter Bui (pbui@nd.edu)
Office Hours
M/W/F 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM, and by appointment
Office Location
350 Fitzpatrick Hall

Help Protocol

  1. Think
  2. Slack
  3. Think
  4. Email
  5. Think
  6. Office

Teaching Assistants

Teaching Assistant
Will Badart (wbadart@nd.edu)
Office Hours
T/W 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Office Location
Center for Digital Scholarship
Teaching Assistant
Alex Brizius (abrizius@nd.edu)
Office Hours
M 11:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Office Location
Engineering Library
Teaching Assistant
Marco Bruscia (jbruscia@nd.edu)
Office Hours
TH 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Office Location
Engineering Library
Teaching Assistant
Luke Duane (lduane@nd.edu)
Office Hours
TH 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Office Location
Engineering Library
Teaching Assistant
Lauren Ferrara (lferrara@nd.edu)
Office Hours
W 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Location
Center for Digital Scholarship
Teaching Assistant
Matthew Flanagan (mflanag6@nd.edu)
Office Hours
W 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Location
Engineering Library
Teaching Assistant
Kyle Gifaldi (kgifaldi@nd.edu)
Office Hours
M 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Office Location
Engineering Library
Teaching Assistant
Bill Theisen (wtheisen@nd.edu)
Office Hours
F 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Office Location
Innovation Lab
Teaching Assistant
Xueying Wang (xwang41@nd.edu)
Office Hours
W/F 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Office Location
Cushing 213
Teaching Assistant
John "Jeffrey" Westhoff (jwesthof@nd.edu)
Office Hours
TH 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Office Location
Innovation Lab
Teaching Assistant
Andrew Wood (awood7@nd.edu)
Office Hours
T 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, TH 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Location
Engineering Library
Unit Date Topics Assignment
Introduction 08/22 Syllabus, Computer Hardware, OS Themes Slides Slides Reading 00
08/24 OS Taxonomy, OS History, Boot Sequence Slides
System Calls 08/29 System Calls Slides Reading 01
08/31 I/O, Files, Directories, Busybox
Processes 09/05 Processes, Signals, Direct Execution Slides Reading 02
09/07 IPC, Pipes, Domain Sockets Slides Project 01
09/12 Scheduling (FIFO, Round Robin) Slides Reading 03
09/14 Scheduling (MLFQ, Lottery) Slides
Threads 09/19 Events Slides Reading 04
09/21 Threads Slides Project 02
09/26 Locks Slides Reading 05
09/28 Condition Variables Slides
10/03 Semaphores Slides Reading 06
10/05 Concurrency Bugs Slides
Midterm 10/10 Review Checklist Project 03
10/12 Midterm Exam
Fall Break
Memory 10/24 Address Spaces, Translation Slides Reading 07
10/26 Free-Space Management Slides
10/31 Segmentation Slides Reading 08
11/02 Paging Slides Project 04
11/07 TLBs, Page Tables Slides Reading 09
11/09 Swapping Slides
Filesystems 11/14 I/O Devices Slides Reading 10
11/16 RAID Slides
11/21 File Systems Slides Reading 11
11/23 Thanksgiving Project 05
11/28 FFS, LFS Slides Reading 12
11/30 Consistency and Integrity Slides
12/05 Review Checklist
12/07 Sprint Project 06
Final 12/14 Final Exam

Coursework

Component Points
Readings Weekly reading assignments. 12 × 3
Projects Periodic group projects. 6 × 24
Exams Midterm and Final Exams. 50 + 70
Total 300

Grading

Grade Points Grade Points Grade Points
A 280-300 A- 270-279
B+ 260-269 B 250-259 B- 240-249
C+ 230-239 C 220-229 C- 210-219
D 195-209 F 0-194

Due Dates

All Readings are to be submitted to your own private GitLab repository. Unless specified otherwise:

  • Readings are due by noon on the Monday of each week.

  • Projects are due by noon on the Saturday of each week.

Policies

Participation

Students are expected to attend and contribute regularly in class. This means answering questions in class, participating in discussions, and helping other students.

Foreseeable absences should be discussed with the instructor ahead of time.

Academic Honesty

Any academic misconduct in this course is considered a serious offense, and the strongest possible academic penalties will be pursued for such behavior. Students may discuss high-level ideas with other students, but at the time of implementation (i.e. programming), each person must do his/her own work. Use of the Internet as a reference is allowed but directly copying code or other information is cheating. It is cheating to copy, to allow another person to copy, all or part of an exam or a assignment, or to fake program output. It is also a violation of the Undergraduate Academic Code of Honor to observe and then fail to report academic dishonesty. You are responsible for the security and integrity of your own work.

Late Work

In the case of a serious illness or other excused absence, as defined by university policies, coursework submissions will be accepted late by the same number of days as the excused absence.

Otherwise, there is a penalty of 25% per day late (except where noted). You may submit some parts of an assignment on time and some parts late. Each submission must clearly state which parts it contains; no part can be submitted more than once.

Students with Disabilities

Any student who has a documented disability and is registered with Disability Services should speak with the professor as soon as possible regarding accommodations. Students who are not registered should contact the Office of Disabilities.

CSE Guide to the Honor Code

For the assignments in this class, you may discuss with other students and consult printed and online resources. You may quote from books and online sources as long as you cite them properly. However, you may not look at another student's solution, and you may not look at solutions.

For further guidance please refer to the CSE Honor Code or ask the instructor.

Textbooks

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau Online Version