Thursday, October 30, 2008

OS The Week After Next

Accodring to the academi calendar , we will have no OS class on Nov 6. On Nov 13, we will cover Chapter 6 "Deadlocks," which is your reading assignment.

OS Exercise 5 posted

Today's exercise problems are posted at the Exercise Page.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

We will use customized slides

For the lecture this week, we will use customized slides for Chapter 2, which can be downloaded from this URL:
http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~hitoshi/COURSES/OS06/SLIDES/

Thursday, October 23, 2008

OS Next Week

Next week, we will continue on Chapter 2 from Section 2.4 "Scheduling" and finish Chapter 2. As usual, the remaining sections in Chapter 2 are your reading assignments.

OS Exercise Grade Updated

The course assistant updated the exercise grade page:
http://web-int.u-aizu.ac.jp/~s1130161/OS08/ and now it includes grades up to Exercise 4.

Please note that some students have already missed four exercise submissions, which means he/she must be dismissed from the class as mentioned in the course syllabus

Section 2.4.3 The Sleeping Barber Problem

Section 2.4.3 "The Sleeping Barber Problem" from the 2nd edition (and missing in the 3rd edition) are scanned and available at

http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~hitoshi/COURSES/OS08/mos3e.html

Please download and make a hard copy of the images as we *may* cover this topic in this afternoon. Please note that the access is limited within u-aizu.ac.jp domain.

OS Exercise 4 posted

Today's exercise problems are posted at the Exercise Page. At the beginning of the class, the instructor will provide a brief explanation of the problem.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

OS Exercise Grade

Grades for up to Exercises 3 are posted at http://web-int.u-aizu.ac.jp/~s1130161/OS08/ . "0 pt" means either missed submission or really zero (completely wrong). Please contact the course assistant if you need to clarify.

(access is imilted within u-aizu.ac.jp domain).

Monday, October 20, 2008

Classroom change confirmed

With confirmation from the SAD, we will change the classroom as follows:
1st and 2nd periods: std3 (Lecture Hall 101)
3rd period: M7 (Lecture Hall 207)

This change is effective for the rest of this semester (unless otherwise noticed).

OS This Week

We will continue on Chapter 2 from Section 2.3 INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION, and also cover Section 2.5 CLASSICAL IPC PROBLEMS if possible. Therefore, these sections are your reading assignments.

For the rest of this semester, we plan to change the course schedule to that of the last week (Exercise classes for the first two periods at std3 and then the lecture at M10 during the 3rd period). The classroom availability is being confirmed with the Student Affairs Section and the result will be posted here later.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

OS Exercise 3 posted

Today's exercise problems are posted at the Exercise Page.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

OS Classroom Change for 10/16

This week, we will start the class at std3 the classroom for the Exercise) for the first two periods and then move to M10 (Lecture Hall 105) for the 3rd period. This change applies to this week only unless otherwise notified.

OS This Week

We will continue on Chapter 2 from Section 2.2.4 "Implementing Threads in User Space" and try to enter 2.3 "Interprocess Communication" if possible. Therefore, these sections are reading assignments.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Office Hours

Office Hours for this semester are Wednesday 1400 - 1600 or by appointment.

OS Exercise 2 posted

Today's exercise problems are posted at the Exercise Page.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Reading Assignments for the Next Week

Next week, we will proceed to Chapter 2 "Processes and Threads" and Sections 2.1 and 2.2 are the reading assignments.

Course overview slides used in today's lecture are posted at the Course Web site.

OS Exercise 1 posted

Today's exercise problems are posted at the Exercise Page.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Important Notice for Advanced Computer Architecture Course

If you plan to take my Advanced Computer Architecture course, please contact me ASAP (even if you have registered for the course with SAD).