OS Exercise Submission Scripts

Every week, you might feel that the file name of the command script for exercise submission is lengthy. If so, you should include the course directory into your command path. For example, add the following line into .cshrc

set path = ($path /home/course/os11f6/Ex)

if you're using csh (or alike), or

PATH=$PATH:/home/course/os11f6/Ex
export PATH

into .bash_profile for bash users. Now you can just type the file name (for example, ex2-test rather than /home/course/os11f6/Ex/ex2-test).

Thesis Topics

Here are topics of the senior project for the current sophomore students (You can find the same information on the school's system)

1. Workload Analysis and Performance Evaluation

   You will learn and investigate how hardware components (such as CPU, memory, disks, network interface) interact with various workload.

2. Save paper, saver printer toner, and save energy

   We still depent on paper-based procedures for doing many things. Also, some poeple say "online" for justing posting pdf files of the forms on the web but we still have to print them out and fill the forms by hand. In this project, we try to modernize such legacy procedures by publicly available resources (such as Google Apps).

You can find past students' theses in
https://sites.google.com/a/oslab.biz/public/Home/theses-1

Please refer to our group's web at
http://www.oslab.biz/

Please contact the instructor by email or in person during his office hours.

OS Exercise Grade

TA has posted the grades of up to Exercise 3 on his page. The access is limited from u-aizu.ac.jp domain.

OS Grading Scheme may be revised

The instructor is currently considering the revision of the grading scheme. Right now, it is Midterm Exam (30%), Final Exam (40%) and Execise (30%).

The exercise problems are for helping you better understand the materials taught in the course (through lectures and the textbook). However, some students are just sitting last rows and not participating the class (or even skiping the lectures), and trying to solve the exercise problems without understanding the course materials (courese subjects). Please be advised that these are the behavior of the students who failed the course in the previous years (mentioned in the course overview slides).

When the decision is made, it will be posted on this board.

OS ID for retrieving your grade

Students registered with my Operating Systems course must have received email with OS_ID as the subject. You will find a number in the email message and we will use this number as your ID when showing the grade for exercise ( posted at the page maintained by the TA). Please keep it securely.

OS Exercise 4 Notice

Your program may work (produce required output) without pthread libraries. However, we will check your source code and without apropriate uses of pthread libraries, you will receive substantial penalties on your submission.

OS Exersice 4 posted

Today's Exercise problem has been posted at the Exercise page.