Operating Systems

Dear Students,

As the Operating Systems final exam on the 26th of July approaches, please register for the final exam on LSF no later than the 19th of July (TODAY).

If you cannot register at LSF as an Erasmus student or for any other reasons, please email us (if you haven't) with your name, matriculation number, and the reason as soon as possible.
 
Good luck with your preparations!
Your OS team

The grades for projects 1, 2, and 3 should now be visible in CMS. Please let us know if you cannot see your grades.

We have also released the fourth project milestone on GitLab. The milestone is due at the end of the day on August 2 (also on the calendar). Please note that you only need 80% of the test points for full points in this assignment.

If you are solving Project 4 NOT based on the p4 repo created for you, please pull from your p4 repo or the main repo to get the updated codebase and tests.

Dear students,

Just a reminder that I will give a special lecture tomorrow titled "The Computer Network behind the Social Network". I will introduce the network behind the scene of Facebook and the ecosystem of cloud network infrastructure. For legal reasons, I cannot share the slides and lecture video. The content will not be covered in the final and repeat exams, but it will be useful for those who consider working in infra/backend teams of a cloud company. Please show up in the lecture if you are interested, and feel free to take notes.

Best,

Yiting

We will hold the midterm in room E1.3 002 (CS building across the way). As there are better tables there (and looks like the preparations for the open day tomorrow at UdS should not be a problem after all. We'll also have a TA pointing you in the right direction in front of our usual lecture hall if you are lost. :-)

Dear class,

A kind reminder of the midterm logistics as follows. Good luck with the exam!

1. Please make sure to register for the exam on CMS. The deadline is midnight today.

2. Please gather in the SWS lobby (ground floor outside of 002) at 15:50. The exam will start at 16:00 sharp.

3. Please bring your student ID with you to the exam. We will check your ID when handing out exam papers.

- The OS teaching team.

Dear all,

The midterm exam is scheduled at 16:00 on June 7 in E15 Room 002. If you plan to attend the exam, please make sure to register on CMS before June 6 23:59. The sample exam paper with solutions has been uploaded to the course materials. The exam will cover all lecture content before the exam and project milestones 1 and 2. It's an open-book exam, so you can bring all notes, slides, and reference reading. Laptop and tablets are allowed if they are not connected to the Internet.

Good luck with the exam!

Your teaching team

The second project milestone was released on Friday, as we announced during the last lecture. The milestone is available in the project's public repository and has been pushed to your repositories.
For those who do not see it, you can access it under src/userprog (https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de/os/os-24ss/pintos/-/tree/main/src/userprog). In addition, links to individual milestones are at the main README (https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de/os/os-24ss/pintos#project-releases)
The deadline for the second project milestone is June 4th at 23:59. You can find this date in the timetable on CMS where all course events are listed.

Please ensure that you register your team for the second milestone on CMS, even if you are continuing with the same group as for the first milestone. After registering your new team on CMS, you will get a new repo (p2-teamXX).

Good luck with your project!

We have released the project Repo for the course (https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de/os/os-24ss/pintos), along with the documentation for the first project here (https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de/os/os-24ss/pintos/-/blob/main/src/threads/README.md).  The project sessions, Thursday and Friday, will walk you through how to get started. You can dial into the sessions through the same zoom as the lecture.

The first project will be due on Tuesday, May 14. Although we will hand out the next project about a week before then.

We will create your project repos used for submission etc. over the next few days as well. Also expect some more tweaks to fix some formatting issues with the docs, and possibly a few additional tests for the synchronization assignment. But none of these affect what you need to do, and these will be trivial to merge for you.

Thanks for bearing with us.

Antoine