CS 503: Operating Systems

Spring 2008

Instructor and TAs	Lab and Policies	XINU Setup	Assignments	Lecture Links

Instructor:

Kihong Park, LWSN 1211, 494-7821, park@cs.purdue.edu

Office Hours:

M 12:30-1:30pm, WF 1-2pm; or by appointment

Teaching Assistant:

Jacques Thomas, jthomas@cs.purdue.edu
Office hours:

Tu: 1:30-2:30 pm LWSN 3133 (in the conference room)

W: 1:30-2:30 pm same

Th: 1:30-2:30 pm same

PSO: M 1:30 - 3:20 pm (HAAS 257)

PSOs:

Students are strongly encouraged to attend PSO sessions. PSOs will commence the second week of class along with the first assignment. If you have a registration schedule conflict, please notify Dr. William Gorman.

Prerequisites:

Graduate standing in Computer Science, previous operating system class at the undergraduate level (CS 354 or equivalent), ability to read and understand a large non-trivial system written in C, ability to program extensively in C, and command of system development tools.

Credit:

Grading Weights:

Assignments 50%

Midterm
25%

Final exam
25%

Assignments	50%
Midterm	25%
Final exam	25%

Labs and Policies:

We will use the XINU operating system for the programming assignments. The XINU lab is located in the Haas Building room HAAS 257.

Getting your CS account. Students can get their CS account information on-line. Go to CS homepage, use the ITaP login and password in the upper right-hand corner. This will take you to a page where you agree to the access and usage policies, and then get your CS login and initial password. You also use the same site for doing mid-semester reviews, evaluations, etc. If you have signed up but don't have an account, please use the accounts@cs.purdue.edu alias. For other account related questions, please contact Candace Walters (clw@cs, LWSN 2116H).

Due Dates

All assignments are due on the dates and times specified. Late assignments are not accepted. It is the student's responsibility to manage their time so that the assignments can be submitted before the deadline.

Academic Dishonesty

We wish to foster an open and collegial class environment. At the same time, we are vigorously opposed to academic dishonesty because it seriously detracts from the education of honest students. Because of this, we have the following standard policy on academic honesty, consistent with Purdue University's official policy.

It is permissible to discuss a general method of solution with other students, or to make use of reference materials in the library or online. If you do this, you will be expected to clearly disclose with whom you discussed the method of solution, or to cite the references used. Failure to do so will be considered cheating or plagiarism. The use of "method of solution" means a general discussion of technique or algorithm, such as one would reasonably expect to occur standing in front of a whiteboard, and precludes the detailed discussion of code or written assignments. Specifically, looking at another student's code on his/her computer monitor is NOT allowed.
Unless otherwise explicitly specified, all written assignments or code that is submitted is to be entirely the students own work. Using any code or copying any assignment from others is strictly prohibited without advance prior permission from the instructor. This includes the use of code others have submitted in the past.
All students work is their own. Students who do share their work with others are as responsible for academic dishonesty as the student receiving the material. Students are not to show work to other students, in the class or not. Students are responsible for the security of their work and should ensure that printed copies are not left in accessible places, and that file/directory permissions are set to be unreadable to others (e.g. use "chmod -R 700 *" from your home directory). If you need assistance protecting your work, please contact the TA or the instructor.
Students who encourage others to cheat or plagiarize, or students who are aware of plagiarism or cheating and do not report it are also participating in academically dishonest behavior.
Be aware that we will use a software tool called MOSS (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html) to check for copying among submitted assignments. Additionally, the instructor and TA will be inspecting all submitted material to ensure honesty.

Any case of academic dishonesty will be dealt with by a severe grade penalty in the overall class grade and referral to the office of the Dean of Students.

CS Ph.D. Qualifier:

This course is one of the courses for Qual I of the CS Ph.D. program. Additional questions will be given on the final exam for students wishing to take the qualifier. The regular final plus the additional questions will comprise the Qual I exam.