Timothy Roscoe: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2020 |  |
| Name | Prof. Dr. Timothy Roscoe |
| Field | Informatik |
| Address | Institut für Computing Platforms ETH Zürich, STF H 314 Stampfenbachstrasse 114 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | +41 44 632 88 40 |
| troscoe@inf.ethz.ch | |
| URL | http://people.inf.ethz.ch/troscoe/ |
| Department | Computer Science |
| Relationship | Full Professor |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 263-3800-00L | Advanced Operating Systems  | 7 credits | 2V + 2U + 2A | D. Cock, T. Roscoe | |
| Abstract | This course is intended to give students a thorough understanding of design and implementation issues for modern operating systems, with a particular emphasis on the challenges of modern hardware features. We will cover key design issues in implementing an operating system, such as memory management, scheduling, protection, inter-process communication, device drivers, and file systems. | ||||
| Learning objective | The goals of the course are, firstly, to give students: 1. A broader perspective on OS design than that provided by knowledge of Unix or Windows, building on the material in a standard undergraduate operating systems class 2. Practical experience in dealing directly with the concurrency, resource management, and abstraction problems confronting OS designers and implementers 3. A glimpse into future directions for the evolution of OS and computer hardware design | ||||
| Content | The course is based on practical implementation work, in C and assembly language, and requires solid knowledge of both. The work is mostly carried out in teams of 3-4, using real hardware, and is a mixture of team milestones and individual projects which fit together into a complete system at the end. Emphasis is also placed on a final report which details the complete finished artifact, evaluates its performance, and discusses the choices the team made while building it. | ||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | The course is based around a milestone-oriented project, where students work in small groups to implement major components of a microkernel-based operating system. The final assessment will be a combination grades awarded for milestones during the course of the project, a final written report on the work, and a set of test cases run on the final code. | ||||