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• Apr 22: Your final marks and unofficial grades are posted in ePost .
• Apr 16: Your A2 marks and TA comments are posted in ePost.
• Apr 5: The final exam is scheduled at 14:00-17:00 on Fri, Apr 19, 2013 in ACW 005. I have two office hours in my office (LAS3014) if you want to ask me any questions before the exam: 2-4pm on Apr 17 (Wed) and 10am-12noon on Apr 19 (Fri). The required reading list for the final exam: (1) Introduction: lecture notes/slides only; (2) Process: 3.1–3.4; (3) Thread: 4.1—4.4; (4) CPU Scheduling: 5.1—5.3; (5) Process Synchronization: 6.1—6.6; (6) Memory management: 8.1, 8.3—8.5, 8.8; (7) Virtual memory: 9.1-9.3, 9.6.
• Apr 3: The memory design problem we discussed in class and its reference solution are posted: problem and solution.
• Apr 2: Lecture notes for week 10 have been posted at Lecture Notes. Your project marks and TA comments are posted in ePost.
• Mar 26: Lecture notes for week 9 have been posted at Lecture Notes.
• Mar 19: Lecture notes for week 8 have been posted at Lecture Notes. Class evaluation has been scheduled at 3:30pm on Mar 26 (Tue). Some hints for A2 are posted here for your reference.
• Mar 13: Assignment two (A2) is posted here, which is due on Mar 31.
• Mar 12: Lecture notes for week 7 have been posted at Lecture Notes. Your midterm marks are already posted in ePost. The marking scheme used by TA is posted here. If you do have any marking problem, please fill and sign the reappraisal form and hand it in along with your midterm paper in class on Mar 14. No more remarking requests will be accepted after Mar 14.
• Mar 6: A1 (main programs) marks and TA comments as well as Quiz3 marks are posted at ePost.
• Mar 4: A source code for the FCFS scheduler in the project has been posted here for your self-study. Note that this code is used only for you to debug your own FCFS scheduler. You should NOT use this as a template for the remaining RR scheduler. Otherwise, your codes may not pass plagiarism tests. A binary code of my RR scheduler is posted here for you to debug your code.
• Mar 1: A previous midterm exam is posted here for your review. Reading list for the midterm reviews: Chapter 1: all sections; Chapter 2: 2.1—2.6, 2.11, 2.12; Chapter 3: 3.1— 3.4, 3.6.3, 3.7; Chapter 4: 4.1– 4.4, 4.6; Chapter 5: 5.1—5.5, 5.8; Chapter 6: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3.
• Feb 28: The midterm exam has been scheduled in LAS C from 2:30-4:00PM on Mar 7 (Thu), 2013.
• Feb 25: Lecture notes for week 6 have been posted at Lecture Notes.
• Feb 17: Some hints for the project can be found at Assignments/Project.
• Feb 14: Project has been posted Assignments/Project, the first part of which is due on Mar 3. Please start to work on it in the reading week.
• Feb 13: Midterm has been re-scheduled to March 7.
• Feb 12: Lecture notes for week 5 have been posted at Lecture Notes. Some programs discussed in class: thread.c, alarm.c, alarm_process.c and alarm_thread.c.
• Feb 11: Your A1p marks and TA's comments have been posted at ePost.
• Feb 7: Due to delayed lecture progress, the 2nd deadline for A1 is extended to Feb 17.
• Feb 5: Lecture notes for week 4 have been posted at Lecture Notes.
• Feb 4: Some fork() examples discussed in class are posted here.
• Jan 24: Lecture notes for week 3 have been posted at Lecture Notes.
• Jan 22: The classroom has been changed: Tuesday - moved to LSB 105; Thursday - moved to CB 121. We will have our class in CB 121 this Thursday (Jan 24).
• Jan 20: You can run the following Unix commands to show the top 10 most frequent words: ”cat dataset1.txt | tr -s ' \t' '\n\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n -k1 | head -n 10”. You can use these results to debug your code.
• Jan 10: Assignment one (A1) is posted here. Please start to work on the preparation part and submit it before the first deadline.
• Jan 7: Lecture notes for weeks 1-2 have been posted at Lecture Notes.
• Jan 5: Course web is up. Class starts on Jan 8.