ICS 145B Project in Operating Systems Lubomir Bic

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ICS 145BProject in Operating SystemsLubomir Bic

• www.ics.uci.edu/bic/courses/145B

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Course Overview

• Instructor
• Lubomir Bic, bic_at_ics.uci.edu
• Office hours after class, CS 408c
• TAs
• Ping Li, liping_at_uci.edu
• Office Hours Th 330-430 IERF 106
• Liang Cheng, lcheng_at_uci.edu
• Office Hours TBA

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Course Overview

• Prerequisites
• ICS 143
• basic knowledge of C and UNIX
• Textbook
• L. Bic, A. Shaw, Operating Systems Principles,
  Prentice-Hall, 2003 (ISBN 0130266116)

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Course Overview

• Course Objective
• apply the principles of OSs from ICS 143 in
  practice
• design/implement several components of a simple
  OS
• get exposed to principles of CS research
• Course Structure
• 4 projects to complete
• presented in lectures (2-4 lectures/project)
• TAs provide help in discussion sections/office
  hours
• on the due date
• turn in your design documentation (all projects)
• include results (some projects)
• demonstrate functionality using given test data
  (some projects)
• work individually or in groups of up to three
  students
• no changes or drops unless all members agree
• same projects but workload will increase with
  group size

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Course Overview

• Schedule and Grading
• grade is based entirely on projects no exams

1 Process and Resource Management 30 design document (15) demo (15)
2 Page Replacement Algorithms 30 design document (15) results (15)
3 Disk Driver 10 design document (10) tested as part of 4
4 File System 30 design document (15) demo (15)
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Course Overview

• Design Documentation
• Level 1
• High-level design description
• Data structures
• Function specification
• System architecture
• calling hierarchy
• which functions access which data structures
• Level 2
• complete code with extensive comments

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Course Overview

• Results and analysis (if applicable)
• rationale for experiments/parameters chosen
• data (tables, graphs)
• interpretation of obtained results (what are we
  seeing and why)
• Demos (if applicable)
• submit source code via Masterhit
• TAs will test it using a set of test cases
• Late work
• penalty of 10 per day will be imposed

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Course Overview

• Target of Opportunity
• develop alternative projects or programming
  assignments
• use in future offerings of 145B
• include in future printings of text book
• thinking about graduate school?