Today we’ll wrap up our overview of computer systems with a high-level look at how operating systems use the hardware to create the illusion of multiple programs running at once.
Slides for today.
Archive for April, 2009
Operating Systems and Input/Output
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Problem Set Stats
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Through PS 6
Average: 81%
Median: 85%
Virtual Memory
Thursday, April 16th, 2009We’ve seen how to make our memory system fast, now we’ll look at how to make it big using virtual memory.
Slides for today.
More on Caches
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Today we’ll finish our discussion of caches by looking at some of the details.
Slides for today.
Exam 2 Stats
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Mean: 45/65 (69%)
Median: 44/65 (68%)
Standard Deviation: 10/65 (16%)
Problem Set #8
Thursday, April 9th, 2009This problem set will give you some practice with the implementation of virtual memory. This is due 23 April.
Problem Set 7
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009This problem set will give you some exercise thinking about caches. This is due Thursday 16 April.
Memory Hierarchy
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Today we’ll begin talking about approaches to optimizing the memory system for our computer.
Slides for today.
Pipelining Issues
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Last time we learned that pipelining increases throughput and latency and we didn’t see any limits on its application. Today we’ll look at the issues that limit how much speedup we can get.
Slides for today.
Reading for Memory Hierarchy
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Starting on next Tuesday we’ll begin a section on memory. Read 7.1-7.7.