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Operating Systems: Instructor: Dr. Shachi Sharma

This document provides an overview of an Operating Systems course taught by Dr. Shachi Sharma in Winter 2019. It introduces the instructor's background and outlines course logistics like office hours, evaluation criteria consisting of quizzes, exams, labs and a presentation, rules, textbooks and objectives. The introduction defines a computer and operating system, and describes the basic components of a computer system and layered architecture.

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Operating Systems: Instructor: Dr. Shachi Sharma

This document provides an overview of an Operating Systems course taught by Dr. Shachi Sharma in Winter 2019. It introduces the instructor's background and outlines course logistics like office hours, evaluation criteria consisting of quizzes, exams, labs and a presentation, rules, textbooks and objectives. The introduction defines a computer and operating system, and describes the basic components of a computer system and layered architecture.

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Operating Systems

Instructor: Dr. Shachi Sharma


(Semester: Winter 2019)
Lecture 1: Introduction
Bio
• Ph.D in Performance Modelling of Broadband Networks, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, Delhi, India
• Total work experience of more than 19 years
• Center for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) 1999-2005
• Alcatel Lucent Pvt. Ltd (2006-2007)
• Bharti Telesoft Ltd (2007-2008)
• IBM Research Laboratory (2008-2017)
• More than 10 patented technologies
• Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi (2018)
Logistics
• Office Hours:
• Room No. 314
• Any working day, drop a mail first ([email protected])
• Subject of the mail should include [OS]
Evaluation
• Short quizzes/home assignment at the end of a topic
• ~ 15-30 minutes
• Objective style
• Graded

• Labs:
• Every lab will be graded
• All labs will be equally weighted (Advise: Do well in early labs!)
Evaluation
• Paper Presentation
• In team of 2 students
• Start choosing papers after mid term
• First show the paper to me and after my consent
• Prepare presentation
• Mid term and Final exams
• Mix of objective and subjective type questions
Evaluation
• Quizzes/Home Assignments: 10%
• Labs: 15%
• Mid term: 25%
• Final Exam: 35%
• Paper Presentation (in teams): 15%
Rules
• No deadline extension

• No re-quiz

• No re-exams

• Cheating in a exam/labs/quizzes: Minimum: zero in the exam, Maximum:


Fail

• Cheating/copying/plagiarism in lab/homework: Min: zero, Max: grade


reduction
Textbooks and References
• Textbooks
• Operating Systems Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin and
Greg Gagne, Wiley
• Operating Systems, Internals and Design Concepts by William Stallings,
Pearson
• Reference Books
• The Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice J. Bach, Prentice Hall
• The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, Prentice
Hall
Class Objectives
• The basics
• Processes and their siblings
• Process synchronization
• Threads and thread synchronization
• Issues with processes – deadlocks and deadlock detection
• Memory Management
• I/O Management
• Storage Management
• Virtual Machines
• Security
What you should expect at the end of this course
• Pretty conversant in C programming. NO fear of pointers, debuggers,
assemblers
• Pretty conversant with Linux internals
• Compiling kernel
• Mucking around the kernel
• Strong understanding of processes, threads and the likes
• Good understanding of memory management as it happens inside the OS
• Basics of storage management – aka filesystems and how data is stored on
disks.
• How a program (aka binary) runs!
• How a computer boots up!
Introduction
• What is a Computer ?

• What is an Operating System?

• Why does a computer need an Operating System ?


Most Basic Computer aka Turing Machine
• Proposed by Alan Turing (circa. 1936)
• Model consists of infinite tape divided into cells which contain input
symbols.
• Head reads the top of the symbol and changes the internal state of
the machine when the symbol is something that is not unexpected.
• The machine thus moves to the next state until it reaches a terminal
state which makes that the input is invalid…
Components of Computer System
Systems and Operating Systems
• Uniprocessor systems
• Multi-processor systems
• Multi-core is multi-processor
• Asymmetric multi-processing (ASMP)
• A master processor controls others
• Solaris version 4 supports ASMP
• Symmetric multi-processing (SMP)
• All processors are peers. OS does all book-keeping
• Windows, Mac-OS, Linux all supports SMP
• Distributed systems
• Clustered systems (loosely coupled)
• Asymmetric clustering (hot standby)
• Symmetric clustering (active-active)
• Client-Server systems
Layered Architecture
P6 P5 P4 P3 P2 P1 User Programs

File System I/O Mem


Task
Management Management Management Kernel
Scheduler
Unit (MMU) (Always Running)

Device Drivers and Firmware

Interrupt handlers

Hardware

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