Lecture 1: September 8 Lecturer: Emery Berger Scribes: Bruno Silva, Gene Novark, Jim Partan
CMPSCI 377 Operating Systems Fall 2009 Lecture 1: September 8 Lecturer: Emery Berger Scribes: Bruno Silva, Gene Novark, Jim Partan 1.1 General information This class is taught by Prof. Emery Berger in ELAB 323, every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30am to 11:00am. ELAB is the older brick building next to the computer science building. For additional information related to the course (syllabus, projects, etc), please visit www.cs.umass.edu/~emery. Although the class name is Operating Systems, this course will deal mostly with large-scale computer systems. The main question to be studied is how to build correct, reliable and high performance computer systems. In order to answer this question, problems such as memory management, concurrency, scheduling, etc, will be studied. 1.1.1 Getting help Prof. Berger is available by appointment in his office (CS344). The TA's office hours are Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM in the Edlab (LGRT 223, 225). In addition to office hours, Discussion Sections will be led by the TA on Wednesdays from 12:20pm to 1:10pm in CMPSCI 142. Attendance is very important since sample test problems will be discussed, and the main concepts presented during the last couple of classes will be reinforced. Also, students looking for help can access the course's newsgroup (look for the link at Prof. Berger's website). Lecture notes will also be available. Although this class requires no textbook, interested students might look for classics of the area, such as Operating System Concepts (Silberschatz et all), 7th Edition.
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