COMP104 - Operating Systems Concepts COMP104 - Operating Systems Concepts Module Information and Resources Lecture and Practical Arrangements There are three lectures each week, taking place at the following times The first lecture will take place on Monday 30th January Monday 14.00 (Life Sciences, Lecture Theatre 3) Tuesday 15.00 (Life Sciences, Lecture Theatre 3) Wednesday 12.00 (Chadwick Building, Chadwick Lecture Theatre) In addition there will be one scheduled practical class each week. These will take place at the following times commencing week beginning Monday 13th February 2017 NOTE: TIMES AND DAYS ARE NOT YET FINALISED AND MAY CHANGE AT SHORT NOTICE. CHECK ORBIT FOR DETAILS Thursday 09.00 (GHOLT-H105 Lab3) (Mahmoud Mousa - mamosa@liverpool.ac.uk) Thursday 11.00 (GHOLT-H116/117 Lab2) (Paul Gainer - sgpgaine@student.liverpool.ac.uk) Friday 09.00 (GHOLT-H105 Lab3) (Paul Gainer - sgpgaine@student.liverpool.ac.uk) Friday 15.00 (GHOLT-H116/117 Lab2- (Mahmoud Mousa - mamosa@liverpool.ac.uk)) FIRST PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT - INFORMATION The first practical assignment can be found here The deadline for which will be 16.00, Wednesday 15th March 2017 SECOND PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT - INFORMATION The second practical assignment be found here The associated input files for this assignment are: Replace longest resident page Replace least recently used page Replace randomly chosen page The deadline for this assignment is 12.00, Wednesday 3rd May 2017 Relevant Notes will appear in this list prior to the material being introduced. Notes Introduction- Processes Concurrency Scheduling and Memory Managment Device Management File Handling Compilers Revision Lecture Notes I Revision Lecture Notes II MODULE DESCRIPTION 28. Aims To introduce students to the structure and functionality of modern operating systems. To explain how the principal components of computer-based systems perform their functions and how they interact with each other. 29. Learning Outcomes At the end of this module the student should be able to state the overall structure and functionality of a modern operating system and the interactions between computer hardware and user-programs; identify the operations of the major components of an operating system, including the device manager, file manager, memory manager, and process manager; identify the functions of system programs, including parsers, compilers, and virtual machines; construct programs which demonstrate in a simple form the operation of examples of systems programs, including simple compilers and programs that involve management of concurrent processes. 31. Syllabus Process management: Communicating sequential processes, process management and scheduling. Resource allocation, mutual exclusion, semaphores, deadlock. (6 lectures) Concurrent programming in Java. (4 lectures) Memory management: storage organisation methods, paging, segmentation, memory allocation, housekeeping. (4 lectures) Device Management: Polling / Interrupts. (1 lecture) File management: Input/output, files, and filestore organisation: buffering, caching, store allocation and garbage collection. (3 lectures) Operating systems case studies: Windows and Linux. (3 lectures) Compilers: a practical overview of compiler construction; lexical analysis, parsing, code generation, linking,interpretation examined in the context of Java and available software tools. (6 lectures) 32. Recommended Texts Core reading: A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin, and G. Gagne: Operating system concepts with Java. Wiley (latest edition). A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin, and G. Gagne: Operating system concepts. Wiley (latest edition). I. M. Flynn and A. McIver-McHoes: Understanding operating systems. Thomson (latest edition). Further reading: K. C. Louden: Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice. Thomson (latest edition). D. Watt, D. Brown, and R. W. Sebesta: Programming Language Processors in Java: Compilers and Interpreters. Prentice Hall (latest edition).
