INF4151 – Operating systems
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
This course gives a thorough introduction to operating systems and covers topics like interrupt management, threads and processes, process coordination and synchronization, management of physical and virtual storage, devices and file systems. The exercises cover both analysis of abstractions, and their realization and implementation. During the course, each student will develop a running operating system kernel for an Intel x86 based computer.
Learning outcome
Traditional operating systems (OS) such as UNIX and Windows have been successfully applied since many years in business and research areas. This course will provide the students with an in-depth understanding of the process management of these systems running on a uni-processor machine.
Admission
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
A maximum of 50 students (INF3151 and INF4151 alltogether) can get admission to this course.
Ranking:
1) Master students at Informatics; programming and networks who have the course approved in their study plan
2) Master student at Department of Informatics who have the course approved in their study plan
3) Master student at Department of Informatics
4) Others
Prerequisites
Formal prerequisite knowledge
- INF2220 – Algorithms and Data Structures (continued)/INF1020 – Algorithms and data structures (discontinued)
Recommended previous knowledge
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with INF3150 – Operating systems - I (discontinued)
- 10 credits overlap with INF4150 – Operating systems - I (discontinued)
- 10 credits overlap with INF3160 – Operating systems II (discontinued)
- 10 credits overlap with INF4160 – Operating systems II (discontinued)
- 9 credits overlap with INF242
- 3 credits overlap with IN142
- 20 credits overlap with INF3151 – Operating systems (continued)
Teaching
Teaching takes place throughout the semester. 4 hours lectures and 4 hours of problem solving sessions per week. Mandatory assignmnets are to be handed in. Rules for mandatory assignments.
Examination
Six project assignment, where each part consist of one practical and one theoretical part, twelve submissions in total. All twelve project assignment must be accepted in order to complete the course. The grade is decided upon the practical parts number 2, 3, 5 and 5 that each counts 25 %.
Examination support material
No examination support material is allowed.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Explanations and appeals
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.
Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass the original examination.
Withdrawal from an examination
It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
Other
It is strongly recommended to attend the first lecture since it will be given important information.