Last Modified: October 2, 2001

CS 587 Advanced Operating Systems - Fall 2001
Class Meetings

Tuesday, Thursday 5:30-6:45 Tapy Hall 201.

You are expected to complete the reading assignment before the class meeting.

My goal is to keep this up to date based on where we actually are and maintain a projection of 2-3 weeks.

Date Topic Reading What's Due
1 8/21/01 Class Overview
2 8/23/01 Overview and System Models Chapters 1 & 2
3 8/28/01 Networking and Internetworking Chapter 3
4 8/30/01 (continued) first project
5 9/4/01 Interprocess Communication Chapter 4
6 9/6/01 (continued) first review
7 9/11/01 no class -- World Trade Center
8 9/13/01 Time and Global Services Chapter 10 first homework
9 9/18/01 (continued)
10 9/20/01 (continued) second review, second homework
11 9/25/01 no class -- illness second project
12 9/27/01 Coordination and Agreement Chapter 11
13 10/2/01 (continued) third homework
14 10/4/01 review
15 10/9/01 Midterm Exam
10/11/01 No class (Fall Break)
16 10/16/01 Transactions Chapter 12 third review
17 10/18/01 (continued) term paper proposal
18 10/23/01 Distributed Transactions Chapter 13 fourth homework
19 10/25/01 (continued)
20 10/30/01 Distributed Shared Memory Chapter 16
21 11/1/01 (continued) third project
22 11/6/01 Distributed File Systems Chapter 8 fourth review
23 11/8/01 (continued)
24 11/13/01 no class -- Supercomputing
25 11/15/01 no class -- Supercomputing
26 11/20/01 Security Chapter 7 term paper
11/22/01 No Class (Thanksgiving)
27 11/27/01 (continued
28 11/29/01 Process Migration handout
29 12/4/01 (continued) fifth review
30 12/6/01 review fifth homework
31 12/13/01 Final Exam fourth project