Administrative information

Administrative course information is available here

The github repository for this course is: github.com/uit-inf-2201-s17/

We use the inf-2201-s17@list.uit.no mailing list to send important information. PS: archived list mails are also located at the list site.

We also have a Slack team uit-inf-2201-s17.

We have the following rooms and hours:

• Mondays, 10:15-12:00, TEKNOBYGGET 1.016
• Mondays, 10:15-12:00, REALF A016
• Tuesdays, 10:15-12:00, Lille Aud (REALF B203)
• Wednesdays, 14:15-16:00, TEKNOBYGGET 1.023AUD
• Thursdays, 12:15-14:00, Lille Aud (REALF B203)
• Fridays, 12:15-14:00, TEKNOBYGGET 1.017
• Fridays, 12:15-14:00, TEKNOBYGGET 1.018

Refer to the lecture and mandatory assignment plan, and e-mails, for which room is used when.

Staff

• Lars Ailo Bongo (larsab@cs.uit.no, A257)
• Tore Brox-Larsen (tore@cs.uit.no, A254)
• Marius Wiik (marius.wiik@uit.no, A040)
• Nikolai Magnussen (nikolai.a.magnussen@uit.no, A039)

Lecture plan (will be updated)

Lecture	Date	Subject	Readings	Lecturer
L1	12.01.17	Introduction and Operating Systems	MOS 1.1 - 1.3	Lars Ailo
L2	17.01.17	IA32 OS Support; and Protection	MOS 1.4 - 1.5	Lars Ailo
L3	19.01.17	OS Structure	MOS 1.6 - 1.7; 12	Lars Ailo
L4	24.01.17	Processes, Non-Preemtive Scheduling	MOS 2.1, 2.2	Lars Ailo
-	26.01.17	Cancelled	-	Lars Ailo
-	31.01.17	No lecture	-	-
L5	02.02.17	Threads, Critical Sections	MOS 2.4 - 2.5	Tore
L6	09.02.17	Mutual Exclusion	MOS 2.2 - 2.3.6	Tore
L7	14.02.17	Semaphores	MOS 2.5 - ??	Tore
L8	16.02.17	Monitors (slides in Fronter)	MOS 2.3.4 - 2.3.5	Tore
L9	16.02.17	Semaphores and Monitors (slides in Fronter)	MOS 2.3.5 - 2.3.7	Tore
-	21.02.17	No lecture	-	-
L10	23.02.17	Thread Packages (slides in Fronter)	MOS 2.2	Tore
L11	28.02.17	CPU Scheduling (slides in Fronter)	MOS 2.4	Tore
L12	02.03.17	Deadlocks (slides in Fronter)	MOS 6	Tore
L13	07.03.17	Message passing (slides in Fronter)	MOS 2.3.8	Tore
L14	09.02.17	I/O Devices and Drivers (slides in Fronter)	MOS 5	Tore
-	14.03.17	No lecture	-	-
L15	16.03.17	Adress Translation, Paging (slides in Fronter)	MOS 3.1 - 3.3, 3.7	Tore
L16	21.03.17	Memory Management (slides in Fronter)	MOS 3.4	Tore
-	28.03.17	No lecture	-	-
L17	30.03.17	Paging	MOS 3.5 - 3.9	Lars Ailo
L18	04.04.17	VM Design	MOS 3.5 - 3.9	Lars Ailo
L19	06.04.17	Storage	MOS 5.4	Lars Ailo
-	11.04.17	No lecture (easter)	-	-
-	14.04.17	No lecture (easter)	-	-
-	18.04.17	No lecture (easter)	-	-
-	20.04.17	No lecture	-	-
-	25.04.17	No lecture	-	-
L20	27.04.17	File Systems I	MOS 4.1 - 4.6	Lars Ailo
L21	02.05.17	File Systems II (same slides as for part I)	MOS 4.1 - 4.6	Lars Ailo
L22	04.05.17	Security (no slides)	MOS 9	Lars Ailo
L23	09.05.17	Virtual Machines and Containers	MOS 7	Lars Ailo
L24	16.05.17	Hot topic: ?	TBA	Lars Ailo

Readings

Mandatory:

1. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 4th Ed., Pearson Educational Limited, 2015. ISBN 10: 1-292-06142-1. Chapters: 1-7, 12.

Suggested additional readings:

1. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau.

Mandatory assignments

Note! The UiT rules regarding cheating on exams “Kildebruk, plagiering og fusk på eksamen” (in Norwegian only) applies for all projects.

Note that we do not make these assignments publicly available.

Project	Precepts	Desgin review	Due	Subject
P1	18.01.17	25.01.17	01.02.17	Boot-up mechanism
P2	01.02.17	08.02.17	22.02.17	Non-preemptive scheduling
P3	22.02.17	01.03.17	08.03.17	Preemptive scheduling
P4	08.03.17	15.03.17	29.03.17	IPC and process management
P5	29.03.17	05.04.17	26.04.17	Virtual memory
Easter	13.04.17	-	17.04.17	God tur
P6	26.04.17	03.05.17	24.05.17	File system