Week 2

Thursday 2 September

• scheduling
• HW1 due

Week 3

Tuesday 7 September

• Quiz 1: Chapters 2 & 3
  • open note: you can have an unlimited amount of hand-written notes or 2 pages of printed notes.
  • for ch 2 none of the material in 2.9 is on the quiz. Be sure to read 2.11.
  • for ch 3  the quiz covers material up to but not including 3.4.1. Make sure to read the paragraph above it on p 117.
• Project 1 heads up

Thursday 9 September

• partner presentation: Software Engineering paper (postscript). You don’t need to cover everything in the paper. Give an overview, some specific examples, and your opinion.  Eric & Chris D.

Week 4

Tuesday 14 September

• Team Worksheet: Comparison of Scheduling Algorithms
• partner presentation: Software Engineering paper (postscript). You don’t need to cover everything in the paper. Give an overview, some specific examples, and your opinion.  Eric & Chris D.
• Threads

Thursday 16 September

• partner presentation: Therac25 There were 2 software problems–describe both (present psuedocode if possible). Describe larger issues (i.e., end-to-end consistency checks). What should they have done. Ben & Chris R.

Week 5

Tuesday 21 September

• process synchronization
• semaphores

Thursday 23 September

• quiz 2: Chapters 4-5
• partner presentation: Programming with threads. This is a short paper. Present the info and give a demo or two. Stacey & Jacob

Week 6

Tuesday 28 September

• Why not to program with threads.
• Semaphores continued
• Remaining topics for partners to pick:
  • Grand Central Dispatch (start with this article on Ars Technica — starting around p11; Google for more info)
  • Inside the Windows 7 kernel (report on this video of Mark Russinovich and possibly this video about the dispatcher lock)
  • Using Genetic Algorithms to Automatically Tune the Kernel
  • scheduling for real-time systems (either Real-Time Linux Kernel Scheduler or the scheduling bit of  pSOSystem System Concepts (pSOSystem is a very popular OS for embedded real-time systems).

Thursday 30 September

• No class. Instead watch
  • Video: Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel