Approximate schedule, subject to change. The homework assignments, for example, will be added weekly. The assigned readings are direct links to the pdf versions of the chapters. They should, ideally, be read before the corresponding class. You are responsible for keeping up with the reading and for all material covered in class.

The “Date” contains a hyperlink to an overview of that week's course materials; a rundown of the topics, lecture notes (if any) lab, homework and supplemental “reading” information.

Date	Topic	Readings	Assignment	Supplemental Material
1/20	Course Overview/Introduction	Preface Dialogue Introduction Lecture Notes	read the supplemental material & come prepared with a question from it	The MainFrame Kid What's a mainframe? A computer that can run the z/TPF OS What is z/TPF? Amadeus Amadeus and z/TPF z/TPF Website
1/25	Processes	Chapter 3 dialogue Processes Limited Direct Execution lec-02Processes	Build & run cpu.c & mem.c as presented in class. Use makefiles if you can, to build executable pgms link to a good make tutorial	Multiplication efficiency vmware vmware careers Shell script - interview questions (see number 6) A better(?) link to Amadeus Linux knowledge via IBM what OS does the IRS use to process tax returns?
1/27	Scheduling	Introduction Multi-Level Feedback Queue		Star Blowing Up (captured by Hubble) The linux vulnerability article I shared in-class
2/1	More On Scheduling		TBD	Well worth your time: connect John Mulaney & missile defense systems!
2/3	Virtual Addressing Scheduling and Signals	Chapter 12 Dialogue Address Spaces Address Translation Segmentation
2/08	UP-TO-DATE: Scheduling & Signals wrap up and Virtual Addressing	Introduction Multi-Level Feedback Queue CPU Scheduling CompletelyFairScheduling in Linux		opengroup's wait() documentation
2/10	Memory (& Free Space) Management			The C++ hardware_concurrency() api
2/15	On to Virtual addressing, Signals	brief on signal handling Chapter 12 Dialogue Address Spaces Address Translation Segmentation Memory Management Slides	Read the following JIT! Try this java program, it uses net beans & demonstrates "hardware_concurrency"as above.
2/17	Paging and Translation Lookaside Buffers	Paging aka TLB Paging... when memory management is complete	How does an IBM OS virtualize memory?
2/22	Swapping	Beyond Physical Memory - Mechanisms Beyond Physical Memory - Policy Chapter 24 Dialogue
2/24	Midterm Exam I (expected)
3/1	Swapping, continued	Beyond Physical Memory - Mechanisms Beyond Physical Memory - Policy Chapter 24 Dialogue	We will complete memory management and turn to paging. The slides are listed above…
3/3	Threads Introduction	Concurrency Concurrency and Threads
3/04	Spring Break through 3/20
3/22	Threads Introduction	Concurrency Concurrency and Threads		intro code example from textbook - rename to th1.c and remove dot txt IBM Z Day?
3/24	Threads Concurrency	Concurrency Concurrency and Threads	moodle link to homework The memallocation.c file from moodle	Coordinating Threads via locking
3/29	Threads Concurrency Continued	Concurrency Concurrency and Threads
3/31	More On Threads	Concurrency Concurrency and Threads
4/5	(Mutex) Locks	Mutex Locks	Compare And Swap example	Cool Video on Z16 Processor!
4/7	Pthreads and Locked Data Structures	Example measurement code	Note - exam moved to April 12! Using Locks Pthread API Lecture Notes Condition Variables Lecture Notes
4/12	Midterm Exam II
4/14	Condition Variables	Condition Variable
4/19	Semaphores	Semaphores	Let's make 10 observations Today's Lecture Notes
4/21	Deadlock Conditions/External Locking	Common Concurrency Bugs	let's finish semaphore's lecture notes then cover deadlock conditions/concurrency bugs	concurrency bugs Found it! Fast User muTEX locks discussion; Worth your time.
4/26	I/O and devices	Persistence External Devices "Hard" Disks We covered diry reads today!	Io - not the moon	Evaluations, please at go.vassar.edu/course/evals
4/28	RAID, Files and Directories	The I stands for Inexpensive File System Details	Files/dirs lecture notes	Photographers and Videographers NEED this
5/3	File Systems, Wrapup and Review	FFS DIP
5/14-17	Final Exam	–	?	some details announced: Wed 5/11 09:00am-11:00am