Course Computer Systems
"Computersystemen"
This is the information of year 2012
The site of the previous year can be found here.
This year the program will be slightly different from the previous years, due to the change in the curriculum of the Bachelor Artificial Intelligence. This year is the first year that the content of the course 'Digitale Methoden' is incorporated into the course.
Description
The official description of course baiCOSY06 can be found (in Dutch) here.
Literature
The course is based on the book Computer Systems: A programmer's perspective, 2nd edition by R.E. Bryant and D.R. O'Hallaron. The book has also a student site with additional material. In addition, the module 'computerarchitecture' of the book 'Van 0 en 1 tot processor' will be covered. Copies of this Dutch book will be available in the classroom.
Schedule
The official schedule can be changed any moment. Please report when you discover a difference with the schedule on this page. The course is scheduled in week 36-43.
Students, who want to work ahead or who were not able to attend a lecture, can listen to the
recordings of my lectures. Download Lecturnity Player and listen to lecture,
synchronized with the sheets. The following scheme will be proposed to be followed:
| day | time | location | remarks |
| Monday | 9:00 - 13:00 | Computer Instruction room G0.18 | Combined lecture, workgroup and assistance on weekly assignment |
| Tuesday | 9:00 - 15:00 | Computer Instruction room G0.18 | Combined lecture, workgroup and assistance on weekly assignment |
| Thursday | 9:00 - 13:00 | Computer Instruction room G0.18 | Combined lecture, workgroup and assistance on weekly assignment |
Monday and Thursday Arnoud Visser will be at least present from 9:00-11:00. On Tuesdays Ronald Heijeler will be present. The last hour of each day the teaching assistants will assist with the assignments. The course is given in 6 weeks, so note that in some weeks more than chapter is covered (and should be read).
| Chapter | Topic | Week | remark |
| 1 | Tour of systems | 36 | |
| 2 | Data representation | 36 | |
| 3 | Machine language | 37 | Program Control in C |
| 4 | Processor Architecture | 38 | Data representation in C |
| 5 | Code Optimization | 38-40 | |
| 6 | Memory hierarchy | 40-41 | |
| 7 | Linking | ||
| 8 | Exceptional control flow | 42 | |
| 9 | Virtual memory | 41 | |
| 10 | System-level I/O | 42 | |
| 11 | Network programming | 42 | |
| 12 | Concurrent programming | 42 |
This are the list of assignments during the course
- Monday week 36 - Monday week 37: L1 - Datalab
- Wednesday week 36: P1 - 'Rekenmachine' (H1-H3).
- Wednesday week 37: P2 - Harvard machine (H7-H8).
- Thursday week 37 - Thursday week 38: L2 - Bomblab
- Wednesday week 38: P3 - Function calls (H9).
- Monday week 40 - Monday week 41: L3 - Perflab
- Wednesday week 40: P4 - Accumalotormachine in hardware (H13)(room G1.18)
- Wednesday week 41: P5 - Pipelining (H14).
- Thursday week 41 - Thursday week 42: L4 - Proxylab
- Wednesday week 42: P6 - Caching (H13).
This are the list of recordings of the lectures:
- Monday Sept 5, 2011: Insight needed (this year not recorded).
- Monday Sept 5, 2011: Tour of the System (this year not recorded).
- Monday Sept 3, 2012: Bits and Bytes.
- Thursday Sept 6, 2012: Floats I, Floats II.
- Monday Sept 10, 2012: Machine Basics I and Machine Basics II.
- Thursday Sept 13, 2012: Data Structures in C.
- Monday Sept 19, 2011: Instruction Set Architecture
- Monday Sept 19, 2011: 64 Bits Machine Basics
- Wednesday Sept 21, 2011: Control in C
- Thursday Sept 22, 2011: Data Structures in C.
- Thursday Sept 22, 2011: Procedures
- Monday Oct 3, 2011: Machine Independent Code Optimalization
- Wednesday Oct 5, 2011: Machine Dependent Code Optimalization
- Thursday Oct 6, 2011: The memory hierarchy (part1 & part2)
- Monday Oct 10, 2011: Cache characteristics and Virtual memory as cache
- Wednesday Oct 12, 2011: Digital Methoden (Computer Architecture)
- Thursday Oct 13, 2011: Digitale Methoden (Computer Architecture)
- Monday Oct 17, 2011: Processes.
- Wednesday Oct 19, 2011: Webservices and concurrency.
- Wednesday Oct 20, 2011: MultiCore.
From the book, we have covered the following sections:
- H1
- H2
- H3
- H4.3.1, H4.4, 4.5.6-4.5.8, 4.5.12,
---------------------First Exam------------- - H5.1-5.10, 5.13-5.15
- H6.1.4, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4.6, 6.4.7, 6.5, 6.6, pp. 639 & pp.649 "aside"s,
- H8.1-8.5.1, 8.7, 8.8
- H9.1-9.5, 9.7.2, 9.8.1-3, 9.11, 9.12
- H10.3, H10.4, H10.6, H10.8-10
- H11.3.3, 11.4-11.7
- H12.3-12.6
- Thursday Sept 20, 2012: page 480
- Thursday Oct 18, 2012: page 1012
Previous exams:
- October 2012
- September 2012
- February 2012
- September 2011
- March 2011
- March 2010
- July 2009
- March 2009
- December 2007
- October 2006
- October 2005
- October 2004
Evaluation
The course was in this year evaluated by the participants with a 6.8:
.
Inheritance
In the old days, when the title Bachelors didn't exist yet at Dutch Universities
a different course was given, by a different teacher, and with another focus.
Still, much can be learned from the course 'Operating- and Distributed systems'.
Links
- Introduction to Computer Systems, Fall 2012, Greg Kesden, Greg Ganger, Dave O'Hallaron, CMU.
- Introduction to Computer Systems, Fall 2011, Greg Kesden, Greg Ganger, Dave O'Hallaron, CMU.
- Author's blogspot.
This web-page and the list of participants to this course is maintained by