Operating systems (OS) provide the crucial interface between a computer's hardware and the applications that run on it. It allows us to write programs without bothering much about the hardware. It also ensures that the computer's resources such as its CPU, hard disk, and memory, are appropriately utilized. In this course, we dwell into how the OS manages to do all this in an efficient manner. This is an introductory course, for students with prior knowledge of computer organization. The course is based on an OS called xv6, which in many ways is similar to the Linux operating systems.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
B.E./Msc (Computer Science)
PRE-REQUISITES
Good knowledge of C, Computer Organization and Architecture, x86 Assembly level programming.
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COURSE INSTRUCTOR
Chester Rebeiro is an Assistant Professor at IIT Madras. He completed his PhD from IIT Kharagpur and a post-doc from Columbia University. His research interests are in cryptography, system security, especially hardware and operating system security. (webpage : http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~chester/)
Certification exam:
The exam is optional for a fee. Exams will be on 24 September 2017.
Time: Shift 1: 9am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2pm-5pm
Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course.
Registration URL: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
Certificate:
Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of Average of Best 6 out of 8 assignments.
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT MADRAS . It will be e-verifiable nptel.ac.in/noc.
COURSE LAYOUT
Introduction
Memory Management
Processes
Interrupts and Context Switching
Scheduling
Synchronization
Deadlocks
Operating System Security
REFERENCE BOOK ''xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system", Revision 8, by Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris ''Operating System Concepts'', 8th edition, by Adraham Silberschatz, Pert B. Galvin, and Greg Gagne, Wiley-India edition ''Modern Operating Systems'', 3rd edition, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, PHI Learning Private Limited, New Delhi The xv6 source code is available via git clone git://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xv6/xv6.git
