CSI 3310: Operating System Principles

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Welcome!

• CSI 3310 Operating System Principles
• Mario Marchand
• marchand_at_csi.uottawa.ca
• www.csi.uottawa.ca/marchand/teaching/CSI3710/CSI3
  710_desc.html

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Time table

• Monday (LEC) 1300-1430 MRN AUD
• Thursday (LEC) 0830-1000 CBY D207
• Important changes
• No course on May 28, June 1st and June 4
• The course on June 22 will be held in CBY D207
  (not MRN AUD)
• DGD schedule consult web page
• TAs are William Elazmeh (tutorials) and Messaouda
  Ouerd (marking)

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Evaluation

• Final exam 50
• Mid-term exam 25
• Assignments 25
• To pass the course (D) you must obtain at least
  50 for the exam component of your mark
• The mid-term exam will be held on a date around
  June 11, in a classroom to be determined

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Labs and assignments

• The assignments will be a mixture of
• Exercises on theory covered in class
• Programming exercises (under UNIX) on
• Concurrency
• Process synchronization
• Memory management

• Important tutorials in your labs on
• Unix
• C/C
• mC (concurrent programming)
• These tutorials, held at the beginning, will give
  you the skills needed for programming assignments

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Course content (if time permits...)

• Computer system overview.
• Operating system overview.
• Process description and control.
• Threads.
• Concurrency mutual exclusion and
  synchronization.
• Concurrency deadlock and starvation.
• Memory management.
• Virtual memory.
• Uniprocessor scheduling.
• I/O management and disk scheduling.
• File management.
• Follows closely the textbook (William Stallings,
  3e)