Quick Introduction to Advanced Operating Systems

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Quick Introduction toAdvanced Operating Systems
CS 438
Nathaniel Wesley Filardo
CS 438
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Me

• Wes, nwf work well.
• Hey you works less well, but not 0.
• Second year grad student working for CLSP and
  Jason Eisner.
• Note not a faculty member.
• Also no Dr. prefix nor Ph.D./etc. Suffix.
• Working on the Dyna project.

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Website and Mailing List

• Website
• http//www.acm.jhu.edu/nwf/cs438
• Mailing List
• http//lists.acm.jhu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cs438
• Please subscribe if you're not
• List is useful for both
• Me reaching you
• You reaching you

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Computers and Logins

• CMU had a great story for this... JHU less so.
• You must have login access to one of
• The undergraduate CS machines (ugradNN)?
• The graduate CS machines (mastersNN)?
• The ACM network (esp. centaur)?
• You will have to make sure your code works on one
  of the three.
• AND tell me on which network you expect to be
  graded!

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Scheduling

• There are many possible schedules.
• All of them require a fast pace.
• Key differentiations
• Feedback on P2 (thread library, team project) by
  drop deadline?
• Some options give this feedback by the S/U
  deadline.
• Break between projects?
• Are you OK with projects going out the day the
  previous project is due?

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Today

• Rapid introduction to X86 and the C calling
  convention on X86.
• Some of you have seen this before.
• Project 0 will use this material, and has been
  released already. It is due Real Soon Now
  (Monday? Wednesday? I'll let you know via the
  mailing list and website tonight.)?