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CS134c

Computing Systems Laboratory, 2001

Instructor: Jason Hickey

Caltech Computer Science Department

• Overview and administration
• Bulletin Board

Note: presentations on April 30, May 2

You have two options: you can present your project proposal in class on one of these two days, or you can create a WWW page for your project. Please send Jason email about your choice.

Lectures

• Introduction
  • April 2: Course administration and intro [handouts]
• Distributed Operating Systems
  • April 4: Basic architecture [handouts]
  • April 6: Communication protocols [handouts]
  • April 11: Group communication [handouts]
  • April 13: GMS [handouts]
  • April 16: Group Communication [handouts]
• Programming Languages
  • April 18: Process synchronization [handouts]
  • April 20: Theoretical models [handouts]
  • April 23: I/O Automata [handouts]
• Garbage Collection
  • May 11: GC [handouts]
  • May 16: GC [handouts]
• Mobile code
  • May 21: Obliq [handouts]
  • May 23: Ambient calculus [handouts]
  • May 25: Ambient calculus [handouts]

Homeworks

1. Group communication

OCaml resources

• Reference manual HTML
• Reference manual tar, zip, PostScript, PDF.
• Linux binaries
  • i386 RedHat 5.2, RedHat 6.0, RedHat 6.1, RedHat 6.2
  • alpha RedHat 6.0
  • PowerPC LinuxPPC
• Linux source (RPM).
• Windows binaries.
• Mac binaries.
• Source.
• Caml-Light tutorial.

Pentium Resources

• Intel Architecture Reference Manual
• Intel Instruction Set Reference Manual
• Intel Architecture Software Developers Manual