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
TA: Keerthi Mohan (kmohan@gmu.edu)
TA's Office Hour: Mondays, 12-2pm and Fridays, 11AM-1pm
When sending a question to the TA, please prefix the
subject with CS571-002. The TA will be in room 365 ST2 .
For more information please go to this website:
http://www.cs.gmu.edu/TAofchours.html
Course Description:
Operating Systems (3:3:0). Prerequisites: CS 310 and 365. Models of operating
systems. Major functions including processes, memory management, I/O, interprocess
communication, files, directories, shells, distributed systems, performance, and user
interface. Fundamental concepts include
process synchronization and scheduling, interprocess communication, memory management,
virtual memory, deadlocks, security and access control, file and disk management,
performance analysis, and distributed systems. The impact of computer architecture on
operating systems is examined. Topics in distributed operating systems covered include:
communication models in distributed systems (client/server, remote procedure calls, and
group communication), synchronization issues, processes and threads, scheduling,
distributed shared memory, and distributed file systems. Case studies of operating
systems are presented. In addition, the professor will present topics related to
"real-life" operating systems such as Windows NT, numerous UNIX flavors, and
some practical issues with solutions from his experience in software systems development,
data communications, computer networks, and distributed systems integration.
Text Book:
A. Silberschatz, Applied Operating System Concepts, Addison-Wesley, 2000
George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, Distributed Systems: Concepts and
Design, Edition 3, Addison-Wesley, ©Pearson Education 2001
References
Daniel A. Menascé, Sliding through
Operating Systems, 1996.
A. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall 1993.
A. Tanenbaum 1995. Distributed Operating Systems. Prentice-Hall.
W. Stallings, Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 3rd edition, Prentice
Hall, 1998.
Pham, T. Q., and P. K. Garg. 1996. Multithreaded Programming with Windows NT.
Prentice-Hall.
Custer, H. 1993. Inside Windows NT. Microsoft Press.
R. Chow and T. Johnson, Distributed Operating Systems and Algorithms Addison Wesley, 1997.
J. Bacon, Concurrent Systems: Operating Systems, Database and Distributed Systems: an
integrated approach, 2nd
edition, Addison Wesley, 1998.
Grading
Grades are based on two in-class exams (a midterm and a final), Hyperlearning Meter
on-line Self-Assessments (HLSA) at regular intervals, homework, and projects. Grades
will be numerical on the scale 0-100. Your final numerical grade, G, is computed as
follows:
G = 0.20 * Midterm + 0.30 * Projects + 0.20*Homework + 0.30 * Grade_Final_Exam
| Grade G | Letter grade |
|---|---|
| [96,100] | A |
| [91,96) | A- |
| [86,91) | B+ |
| [81,86) | B |
| [70,81) | C |
| [0, 70) | F |
Lateness:
I will not accept assignments late unless you have pre-arranged a new due date, or if
there is an emergency and you let me know as soon as possible after the emergency.