Instructor:
   Name: Prof. Azer Bestavros
  Email: best@cs.bu.edu
 Office: MCS-140E, 111 Cummington street (ext: 3-9726)
  Hours: Tue 5:00pm-6:30pm
         Wed 1:30pm-3:00pm
         or by appointment arranged through email

Teaching Fellow:
   Name: Ray Sweha
  Email: remos@bu.edu
 Office: MCS-218, 111 Cummington street (ext: 3-2222)
  Hours: Mon 2:00-4:00pm (held in Ugrad Lab)
         Thu 2:00-3:00pm (held in Ugrad Lab)
         Fri 1:00-2:00pm (held in TF Office) 
         or by appointment arranged through email

Lectures:
  Place: CAS-313
   Time: Tue/Thu 3:30pm-5:00pm 

Sections:
   Time: Mon 1:00-2:00pm / Fri 11:00-12:00pm / Fri 2:00-3:00pm
         (students attend one of the above sessions each week)

Important Dates:   

         Last day to drop the class without a W grade is Fri 2/17/06

         Last day to drop the class with a W grade is Fri 3/17/06

         Exam dates are Tuesday 2/14, Tuesday 4/18, and Friday 5/5

Cyberspace Coordinates:
    URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/~best/crs/cs350/S06
  Email: cs350@cs.bu.edu
         To add yourself type "csmail -a cs350" from your csa account
         (Click here for details)

Course Administration and Policies:

• Overview of Course
• About the Course Staff
• Lectures and Discussion Sections
• Grading and Grade Breakdown
• Homework Assignments
• Exams and Quizzes
• From Collaboration to Plagiarism
• Grade Reporting Instructions
• Textbook and References
• The Web Page for BACI software
• Tutoring Schedule
• Class Schedule 

Course Intranet: (Username/Password Required)

• Course Mail Log:
  • By Date
  • By Author
  • By Subject
  • By Thread

   

• Lecture Notes:
  • [2006-01-17] Review of Computer Organization
  • [2006-01-19] Processes as Resource Consumers
  • [2006-01-19] Performance Metrics of Computing Systems
  • [2006-01-24] Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems
  • [2006-01-26] A Basic Introduction to Probability
  • [2006-01-31] Probability Distributions as Modeling Tools
  • [2006-02-02] Basic Queuing and M/M/1 Analysis
  • [2006-02-07] Variations on the M/M/1 Analysis
  • [2006-02-07] Examples of single queue analysis
  • [2006-02-09] Discrete Event Simulation
  • [2006-02-16] Sampling and Confidence Intervals
  • [2006-02-23] Multiple-Server Queues and Queuing Networks
  • [2006-02-23] Examples of Queuing Network Analysis
  • [2006-02-28] From M/M/1 (and FCFS) to GPS (and Round Robin)
  • [2006-02-28] Resource Scheduling Basics I
  • [2006-02-28] Resource Scheduling Basics II
  • [2006-03-14] Stateful Resource Scheduling
  • [2006-03-16] Real-Time Scheduling
  • [2006-03-21] Synchronization: Two-Party Mutual Exclusion
  • [2006-03-23] Synchronization: N-Party Mutual Exclusion
  • [2006-03-28] Synchronization: OS-Assisted Mutual Exclusion
  • [2006-03-30] Classical Semaphore Synchronization Problems
  • [2006-04-11] Deadlocks and Starvation
  • [2006-04-13] Transactional Processing
  • [2006-04-23] Distributed Systems: Clock Synchronization 
  • [2006-04-25] Distributed Systems: Distributed Global Snapshot 
  • [2006-04-30] Grand Tour!

   

• Homework Assignments:
  • [Due: 2006-01-31] Homework #1 / Solution / Graded
  • [Due: 2006-02-07] Homework #2 / Solution / Graded
  • [Due: 2006-02-16] Homework #3 / Solution / Graded
  • [Due: 2006-02-28] Homework #4 / Solution / Graded
  • [Due: 2006-03-17] Homework #5 / Solution / Graded
  • [Due: 2006-03-28] Homework #6 / Solution / Graded
  • [Due: 2006-04-04] Homework #7 / Solution / Graded
  • [Due: 2006-04-11] Homework #8 / Solution / Graded
  • [Due: 2006-04-27] Homework #9 
  • [Due: 2006-05-05] Homework ++

   

• Quizzes and Additional Exercises:
  • Exercises on Background System Organization Materials 
  • Exercises on Probabilistic Analysis
  • Exercises on Queuing Analysis
  • Exercises on Scheduling and Resource Management
  • Exercises on Synchronization

   

• Other Handouts:
  • Official Course Syllabus
  • On priority inversion
  • Cheat Sheet

Updated on: 2006-05-04
© 1997-2006 Azer Bestavros