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Course Information. Andy Wang COP 5611 Advanced Operating Systems. Contact Information. Andy Wang (awang@cs.fsu.edu) Office: 269 Love Building Office hours: after class (also by appointments) Class website: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~awang/courses/cop5611_s2012. Teaching Assistant.

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  1. Course Information Andy Wang COP 5611 Advanced Operating Systems

  2. Contact Information • Andy Wang (awang@cs.fsu.edu) • Office: 269 Love Building • Office hours: after class (also by appointments) • Class website: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~awang/courses/cop5611_s2012

  3. Teaching Assistant • Chi Zhang (czhang@cs.fsu.edu) • Provides help on projects

  4. Objectives • Become exposed to classic and current OS literature • Gain experience in doing OS research • Develop projects that lead to publishable results

  5. Prerequisites • COP 4610 (operating systems) • CDA 3101 (computer organizations) • Knowledge of the UNIX environment • Proficiency in C

  6. Course Materials • Lecture notes and papers (posted on the class website) • No required textbooks

  7. Recommended Textbooks • Tanenbaum and Van Steen, Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms • Singhal and Shivaratri, Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems

  8. Background Textbooks • Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems • Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne, Operating System Concepts • Nutt, Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective

  9. Kernel-Hacking Aids • Nutt, Kernel Projects for Linux • Kernighan, Ritchie, The C Programming Language • Maxwell, Linux Core Kernel Commentary • Corbet, Rubini, and Kroah-Hartman, Linux Device Drivers

  10. Grading • Paper summaries and critiques 5% • Project 40% • Peer evaluation of projects 5% • Exam 1 10% • Exam 2 10% • Final 30%

  11. Critiques • Ten one-page single-spaced critiques on recent papers (< 1 yr), from the following venues, or from other venues with prior approval: • Conferences: SOSP, OSDI, EuroSys, RTSS, HotOS, HotStorage, Usenix FAST, Usenix ATC, Sigmetrics, ASPLOS, Usenix Security, StorageSS

  12. Side Note: Research Cycle • Having an idea • 2 months later • Submit a grant proposal to NSF • 6 months later • Funded • 3 months later • Prototype built • Submit to WIP • 6 months later • Evaluation done • WIP published • 3 months later • Submit to a conference • 6 months later • Paper published

  13. Critiques • One due each week, both in class and through turnitin.com (via blackboard), for the first 10 weeks

  14. Critiques • Need to address the following: • Summary • Problems/existing & new approaches/results • Intriguing aspects of the paper • Observations/trends/assumptions/techniques • How can the research be improved? • Techniques/experiments/handling of corner cases and assumptions

  15. Project • You need to develop a project in teams of two or three • Goal: • Publishable results

  16. Types of Papers • Survey papers • Position papers • Simulation papers • Measurement papers • System papers

  17. Some Example Projects • Feasibility of using sound cues for debugging operating systems • Feasibility study of applying economic models for distributed resource management • Feasibility study of life-long storage of sensory inputs

  18. Weekly Project Reports • Demonstrate steady progress • Papers read • Obstacles encountered • New ideas • Software pieces built • Experiments

  19. Project Proposal • Due on the 5th week • All team members are required to participate • 2-page written proposal • Motivation • The state-of-the-art • Methodology • Expected results • Timeline

  20. Project Proposal Include: • 5-10 references • Division of labor amongst teams

  21. Project Presentation • During the last two weeks of the course • 15-page (max) written paper due by the last lecture (double column, single-space, 10-pt font) • Critiques on two other projects, not including yours

  22. Exams • In-class and closed-book, unless specified otherwise • Essays and short answers • Open research questions

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