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CS 736 - Fall 1995;CS 736Advanced Operating SystemsFall 1995;Marvin Solomon;office: 5355 Computer Sciences;office hours: 9:00 TR;office phone: 262-1204;email address:; solomon@cs.wisc.edu;News; Watch this space for the latest updates.;Last updated: Thu Dec 14 10:30:08 CST 1995;Dec 14;The schedule for; project presentations is listed below.;Dec 8;The Final Exam will be Monday, Dec. 18, from 2:45 to 4:45 pm in;room 1221, Computer Sciences and Statistics building.;Project presentations will be in room 2310 on Friday, Dec. 15,;from 10 am until noon.;Oct 20;Here is an example of a past midterm exam;together with sample answers.;Oct 19;The midterm exam will be Wednesday, October 25, from 7:15 to 9:15 pm;in room 1221 Computer Sciences.;The final exam will be Monday, December 18, exact time and place to be;determined.;Sep 29;Project suggestions and other information;about the project are now avaiable.;Aug 30;A more readable version of Figure 5 from the; Multics memory management paper;is available.;Contents; News; Summary; Lecture Information; Text; Course Schedule; Grading; Project; Project Presentations; Summary;This course is intended to give you a broad exposure to advanced;operating systems topics.;I will assume that all students have had a good one-semester course on;operating systems (CS 537 or the equivalent).;We will cover the topics normally presented in such a course, but in;considerably more detail:;synchronization,;interprocess communication,;memory management,;file systems,;protection,;security,;and distributed systems.; Lecture Information;Lecture: 11:00 - 12:15 Tuesday and Thursday, 1263 Computer Sciences;Text;There is really no satisfactory textbook for a graduate level operating;systems class, so we will use;a selection of 26 ``classic'' papers;as our text.;The course will be structured around readings from journal articles and;conference proceedings.;You can purchase these readings at the DoIT (formerly MACC) documentation desk;for about $20.;The readings this semester are very similar, but not identical, to those;of previous semesters.;If you have a used copy, I can make available individual papers for you;to copy.;During each class, we will discuss topics relevant to the current papers;(click;here;for a tentative schedule).;The lecture will not be a detail-by-detail review of the papers, but will;instead be a;discussion of major topics and themes using the papers a focal point.;Active participation in discussion is strongly encouraged.;If you are willing to participate actively and daily in class, you'll get;a lot out of it.;If you expect to sit quietly and listen for 15 weeks, you will get much less;out of this class.;Grading;There will be two exams (a midterm and a final) and a project.;Each will be worth about 1/3 of the total grade.;The exams are designed to verify that you have carefully;and thoroughly read all the readings.;Project;You will be required to complete a term project.;A list of suggested topics will be provided,;but you are strongly encouraged to make up your own project.;Projects may involve implementation of tools, experimental implementations;of algorithms suggested in the research literature, measurement studies,;or simulations.;All projects must have an experimental component.;Literature surveys or unvalidated design papers are not sufficient.;Most projects will be done by two-person groups.;Larger or smaller groups may be approved on a per-case basis.;You will write a term paper summarizing the results of your project.;This paper must meet the standards of a research publication.;It will be graded on the quality of the writing as well as the content.;You will also make a;short presentation;about your project to the class.;Project Presentations;Here is the schedule for project presenations.;All presentations will be in room 2310, Computer Sciences and Statistics.;Times are approximate.;10:00; Manyan Stubbs; Andrew Biggs; Francis Salmon and Gunawan Agus;10:20; Qingmin Wang and Chien-pang (James) Chen; Eric Larsen; Conroy Fritz and Craig Jordan;10:40; Prasad Deshpande and Avinash Sodani; Jim Basney and Rajesh Raman; Biswadeep Nag;11:00; Wei Chen and Taxiao Wang; Lei Cao, Yanming Cao and Xinyu (Richard) Zhang; Todd Munson;11:20; Wenjun Qiu, Xinyi Wang and Yufei Zhu; Zeyu Chen and Sridhar Gopal; Michael Lee;solomon@cs.wisc.edu;Thu Dec 14 10:30:08 CST 1995;