Computer Science Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Course Schedule for Spring 2008
Updated on 04/23/2008
Date |
Topic |
1/17 |
A Bird's Eye View of Systems and System Abstractions |
1/22 |
Performance Metrics of Computing Systems |
1/24 |
Elementary Probability Analysis |
1/29 |
Probability Distributions and Expectations |
1/31 |
Elementary Queuing Analysis: The M/M/1 Queuing Model |
2/05 |
Empirical Performance Evaluation: Discrete Event Simulation |
2/07 |
Elementary Statistics: Sampling, Estimation, and Confidence Intervals |
2/12 |
Elementary Queuing Analysis: Variations on M/M/1 queuing model |
2/14 |
Elementary Queuing Analysis: Queuing Networks and Case Studies |
2/21 |
Exam #1 |
2/26 |
Resource Management: Scheduling Fundamentals |
2/28 |
Resource Management: Basic Scheduling Algorithms |
3/04 |
Resource Management: Real-Time and Priority-Based Scheduling Algorithms |
3/06 |
Resource Management: State-Sensitive (I/O) Scheduling Algorithms |
3/18 |
Resource Management: Group Scheduling and Fairness |
3/20 |
Principles of Concurrency and Process Synchronization |
3/25 |
Mutual Exclusion: Dekker's and Peterson's Algorithms |
3/27 |
Mutual Exclusion: Semaphores and their implementation |
4/01 |
Mutual Exclusion: Producer/Consumer and Reader/Writer Problems |
4/03 |
Classical Synchronization: The Barbershop and Dining Philosophers Problems |
4/08 |
Deadlock Management: From Detection to Avoidance |
4/10 |
Transactional Processing: The ACID Properties |
4/15 |
Slack |
4/17 |
Exam #2 |
4/22 |
Distributed Systems: Network layers and Internet protocols |
4/24 |
Distributed Systems: Synchronization and Distributed Global Snapshot |
4/29 |
Distributed Systems: Overlay Networks |
5/01 |
Wrap-up and Review |
5/10 |
Final Exam (11:00am-1:00pm) |
Last
day to drop the class without a W grade is
Friday 2/16/07
Last day to drop the class with a W grade is Friday 3/09/07