Course Information Andy Wang COP 5611 Advanced Operating Systems

Contact Information Andy Wang Office: 269 Love Building Office hours:  MF 4-5pm, after class, also by appointments Class website:

Objectives Learn classic and current OS literature Gain experience in doing OS research Develop projects that lead to publishable results

Prerequisites COP 4610 (operating systems) CDA 3101 (computer organizations) Knowledge of the UNIX environment Proficiency in C

Course Materials Lecture notes and papers  Posted on the class website No required textbooks

Recommended Textbooks Tanenbaum and Van Steen, Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms Singhal and Shivaratri, Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems

Background Textbooks Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne, Operating System Concepts Nutt, Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective

Kernel-Hacking Aids Nutt, Kernel Projects for Linux Kernighan, Ritchie, The C Programming Language Maxwell, Linux Core Kernel Commentary Corbet, Rubini, and Kroah-Hartman, Linux Device Drivers

Grading Paper summaries and critiques5% Project40% Peer evaluation of projects5% Exam 110% Exam 210% Final30%

Individual Critiques Ten one-page single-spaced critiques on recent papers (< 1 yr), from the following venues, or from other venues with prior approval:  Conferences: SOSP, OSDI, EuroSys, HotOS, HotStorage, HotCloud, Usenix FAST, Usenix ATC, Sigmetrics, ASPLOS, Usenix Security, StorageSS, MobiCom, MobiSys

Side Note: Research Cycle Having an idea  2 months later Submit a grant proposal to NSF  6 months later Funded  3 months later Prototype built Submit to WIP  6 months later Evaluation done WIP published  3 months later Submit to a conference  6 months later Paper published

Critiques One due each week  Both in class and through turnitin.com (via blackboard), for the first 10 weeks  Please include your name, homework number, submission date, paper title, publication venue

Critiques Need to contain the following sections  Summary Problems/existing & new approaches/results  Intriguing aspects of the paper Observations/trends/assumptions/techniques  How can the research be improved? Techniques/experiments/handling of corner cases and assumptions

Project You need to develop a project in teams of two or three It should take about at least 100 to 120 hours Goal:  Publishable results

Types of Papers Survey papers Position papers Simulation papers Measurement papers System papers

Some Example Projects Feasibility of using sound cues for debugging operating systems Feasibility study of applying economic models for distributed resource management Feasibility study of life-long storage of sensory inputs

Weekly Project Reports Per person Demonstrate steady progress  Papers read  Obstacles encountered  New ideas  Software pieces built  Experiments

Project Proposal Due on the 5 th week Group presentation  All team members are required to participate 2-page written proposal  Motivation  The state-of-the-art  Methodology  Expected results  Show stoppers Plan B  Timeline

Project Proposal Include: 5-10 references Division of labor amongst teams

Project Presentation During the last two weeks of the course 12 to 15-page (max) written paper due by the last lecture (double column, single-space, 10-pt font) Critiques on two other projects, not including yours

Exams In-class and closed-book, unless specified otherwise Essays and short answers Open research questions

Entrance Exam Make sure that you have the necessary background Too late to drop the class after exam 1  You need to pay extra to make up the dropped credit hours

Overall Expectations Not like an undergraduate course Need to take your own initiative Lots of time spent on reading, writing, and working on your project Need to limit your course load  Find out about taking research hours

A Few Words on Plagiarism Please don’t plagiarize; that means  No cutting and pasting  No Wiki references  No paraphrasing, moving prepositional phrases around, replacing verbs, etc. Dire consequences; potential loss of  Grade, assistantship, on-campus jobs, student VISA, dormitory

A Few Words on Plagiarism Alternatives  Skip a HW (0.5% of the course grade)  Drop classes, jobs on the side  Ask for project extension due to an excused absence  Switch majors/schools

A Few Words on Plagiarism My prosecution record: 100% This is your only warning Typically  Tempted to plagiarize after exam 1 I will be busier, but SafeAssign won’t  Will see an ‘I’ grade at the end