George Mason University
School of Information Technology and Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Spring 2001 CS571-002-36382
Operating Systems
Class Meeting:
Thursdays, 07:20PM-10:00PM Room: KH 7
Schedule

Professor: Dr. Tan N. Nguyen
Telephone: (703) 993-1530

E-mail: tnguy1@cs.gmu.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Home Page: http://classweb.gmu.edu/classweb/tnguy1
Class email: cs571-002@gmu.edu

Spring Recess:   March 8, 2001
Midterm Exam:  March 15, 2001
Final Exam:        May 3rd 2001

MEETINGS

TOPICS

Feb 15 

Chap. 6.2, 6.2, 6.3 and Chap. 7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6

Feb 22

Chap. 8, Chap. 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 (9.5 and 9.6: for refs only)

Mar 1

Chap. 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4.  Chap 11: refs only. Chap 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, Chap. 13.1, 13.2

Mar 8

Recess: No class meeting

Mar 15

Midterm Exam
Mar 22 Chapters 1 and 2 (Distributed Systems):  Introduction to Distributed Systems Models.
Mar 29 Chapters 3 and 4: Networking and inter process communications
April 5 Chapter 6: Operating System Support

April 12 - April 26

Distributed Systems Selected Topics in Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation, Distributed File Systems, Concurrency Control in Distributed Transactions, Distributed Deadlocks, and Distributed Multimedia Systems.

May 3

Final Examination