Schedule

The schedule below shows the tentative dates for all class topics, readings, and assignments. You should complete all assigned reading before class on the day it is listed. Labs will be available shortly before the assigned lab day. There may be some revisions to the schedule during the semester, but I will make sure to announce these changes in class. If you view this page with JavaScript enabled you can jump to the current week on the schedule, and you should see the next day of class highlighted in the schedule below.

Week 1		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Jan 22 2018	Introduction Mini Lab: Gitting Started slides	GitHub Guides: Hello World Introduction		Mini Lab: Gitting Started by 10:30pm
Tu	Jan 23 2018	Lab: C & POSIX	No reading
W	Jan 24 2018	Processes slides	Processes Process API	Assignment 1
F	Jan 26 2018	System Calls POSIX Presentations	Direct Execution Your assigned `man` page
Week 2		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Jan 29 2018	Address Spaces slides	Address Spaces Memory API	Assignment 2	Assignment 1 by 10:30pm
Tu	Jan 30 2018	Lab: Shell	No reading		Lab: C & POSIX by 10:30pm
W	Jan 31 2018	Segmentation slides	Address Translation Segmentation
F	Feb 2 2018	Paging slides	Introduction to Paging Advanced Page Tables
Week 3		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Feb 5 2018	Mini Lab: Debugging	Beej’s Quick Guide to GDB through Attach to a Running Process	Assignment 3	Assignment 2 by 10:30pm
Tu	Feb 6 2018	Lab: Virtual Memory	No reading		Lab: Shell by 10:30pm
W	Feb 7 2018	Swapping	Swapping: Mechanisms Swapping: Policies
F	Feb 9 2018	How an Allocator Works	Free Space Management
Week 4		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Feb 12 2018	Linkers and Loaders	Linking and Loading Lohn Levine, Linkers and Loaders	No assignment this week	Assignment 3 by 10:30pm
Tu	Feb 13 2018	Lab: Memory Allocator	No reading		Lab: Virtual Memory by 10:30pm
W	Feb 14 2018	Threads	Concurrency and Threads Thread API
F	Feb 16 2018	Locks	Locks
Week 5		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Feb 19 2018	Locked Data Structures	Locked Data Structures	Assignment 4
Tu	Feb 20 2018	Lab: Password Cracker	No reading
W	Feb 21 2018	Condition Variables	Condition Variables
F	Feb 23 2018	Concurrency Bugs slides	Concurrency Bugs		Lab: Memory Allocator by 10:30pm
Week 6		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Feb 26 2018	Parallel Programming Puzzles slides	No reading		Assignment 4 by 10:30pm
Tu	Feb 27 2018	Lab: Parallel Data Structures	No reading		Lab: Password Cracker by 10:30pm
W	Feb 28 2018	Scheduling slides	CPU Scheduling
F	Mar 2 2018	Advanced Scheduling	Multi-level Feedback Lottery Scheduling
Week 7		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Mar 5 2018	Multiprocessor Scheduling	Multi-CPU Scheduling	Assignment 5
Tu	Mar 6 2018	Lab: Worm!	No reading		Lab: Parallel Data Structures by 10:30pm
W	Mar 7 2018	Distributed Systems	Distributed Systems
F	Mar 9 2018	Mini Lab: Networking	No reading	Assignment 6
Week 8		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Mar 12 2018	Distributed Systems Mini Lab: Networking	No reading
Tu	Mar 13 2018	Lab: Distributed Systems	No reading
W	Mar 14 2018	Distributed Systems	Network File System (NFS)		Assignment 5 by 10:30pm
F	Mar 16 2018	I/O and Storage Devices	I/O Devices Hard Drives		Lab: Worm! by 10:30pm Assignment 6 by 10:30pm
Spring Break
Week 9		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Apr 2 2018	Files and Filesystems	Files and Directories File System Implementation	Assignment 7
Tu	Apr 3 2018	Lab: Distributed Systems	No reading
W	Apr 4 2018	Advanced Filesystems	FSCK and Journaling
F	Apr 6 2018	Mini Lab: Intro to GPUs	Introduction to CUDA C and C++ Grids, Blocks, and Threads
Week 10		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Apr 9 2018	Mini Lab: CUDA Memory	Cornell Virtual Workshop – CUDA Memory (read all subsections)		Assignment 7 by 10:30pm
Tu	Apr 10 2018	Lab: GPU Galaxies	No reading
W	Apr 11 2018	Big Picture	No reading	Reading Journal 1
F	Apr 13 2018	System Design	Hints for System Design Butler W. Lampson		Reading Journal 1 before class
Week 11		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Apr 16 2018	About the Project	No reading	Reading Journal 2
Tu	Apr 17 2018	Project Planning	No reading	Project: Proposal	Lab: Distributed Systems by 10:30pm
W	Apr 18 2018	Garbage Collection	No reading
F	Apr 20 2018	Paper Discussion	Garbage Collection in an Uncooperative Environment Hans-Juergen Boehm and Mark Weiser	Reading Journal 3	Reading Journal 2 before class Lab: GPU Galaxies by 10:30pm
Week 12		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Apr 23 2018	Models of Concurrency	Event-based Concurrency		Project: Proposal by 10:30pm
Tu	Apr 24 2018	Project Working Day	No reading	Project: Implementation Project: Presentation Project: Report
W	Apr 25 2018	Paper Discussion	MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat	Reading Journal 4	Reading Journal 3 before class
F	Apr 27 2018	Memory and Concurrency Bugs	No reading
Week 13		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	Apr 30 2018	Paper Discussion	Treating Bugs as Allergies: A Safe Method for Surviving Software Failures Feng Qin, Joseph Tucek, and Yuanyuan Zhou	Reading Journal 5	Reading Journal 4 before class
Tu	May 1 2018	Project Working Day	No reading
W	May 2 2018	Memory and Concurrency Bugs, continued	No reading
F	May 4 2018	Paper Discussion	Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs Stefan Savage, Michael Burrows, et al.	Reading Journal 6	Reading Journal 5 before class
Week 14		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	May 7 2018	Software Profiling	No reading
Tu	May 8 2018	Project Working Day	No reading
W	May 9 2018	Paper Discussion	Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling Charlie Curtsinger and Emery D. Berger		Reading Journal 6 before class
F	May 11 2018	Wrap Up	No reading
Finals Week		Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
M	May 14 2018	Reading Day			Project: Implementation by 10:30pm Project: Report by 10:30pm
W	May 16 2018	Project Presentations section 02, 9:00am–noon			Project: Presentation
F	May 18 2018	Project Presentations section 01, 9:00am–noon			Project: Presentation