CS 213 Introduction to Computer Systems Course Organization David O Hallaron August 29 2000 Topics Staff text and policies Lecture topics and assignments Lab rationale class01b ppt CS 213 F 99 Teaching staff Instructors Prof Randy Bryant Wed 10 00 11 00 WeH 4220 Prof David O Hallaron Tue 10 30 11 30 WeH 8125 TA s Jason Crawford TBD Wean Cluster Blake Scholl Wed 3 00 4 00 Wean Cluster Bianca Schroeder Tue 1 30 2 30 WeH 5123 Tiankai Tu TBD WeH 5119 Course Admin Rosemary Battenfelder WeH 4218 These are the nominal office hours Come talk to us anytime Or send email class01b ppt 2 CS 213 F 00 Textbooks Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie The C Programming Language Second Edition Prentice Hall 1988 Randy Bryant and David O Hallaron Introduction to Computer Systems A Programmer s Perspective To be published by Prentice Hall alpha version of the text in the form of handouts Your feedback on the notes is very important class01b ppt 3 CS 213 F 00 Course Components Lectures higher level concepts Recitations applied concepts important tools and skills for labs clarification of lectures exam coverage Homeworks 1 week individual solving a series of smaller problems some programming drills to provide practice for exams Labs multi week usually 2 weeks groups of up to 2 people provide in depth understanding of an aspect of systems programming and measurement Some unavoidable overlap of labs and homeworks early in the course class01b ppt 4 CS 213 F 00 Getting Help Web www cs cmu edu afs cs academic class 15213 f00 www Copies of lectures book chapter handouts assignments exams solutions Clarifications to assignments Summaries of performance on exams and assignments Newsgroup cmu cs class cs213 Clarifications to assignments general discussion Personal help Professors door open means come on in no appt necessary TAs please mail or zephyr first class01b ppt 5 CS 213 F 00 Policies Assignments Work groups You may do all labs in groups of up to 2 homeworks individually Handins Assignments due at 11 59pm on specified due date Either 11 59pm Monday evening or 11 59pm Wednesday evening Electronic handins only Makeup exams and assignments OK but must make PRIOR arrangements with either Prof Bryant or O Hallaron Appealing grades Within 7 days of due date or exam date Assignments Talk to the lead person on the assignment Exams Talk to either Prof Bryant or O Hallaron class01b ppt 6 CS 213 F 00 Policies Grading Exams 50 Two in class exams 12 5 each Final 25 All exams are open book open notes Assignments 50 4 homeworks 1 week 2 each 5 labs 2 weeks 8 10 each Grading Characteristics Assignment scores tend to be high Serious handicap if you don t hand a lab in Tests have big bearing on letter grade Wider range of scores Only chance for us to evaluate individual performance class01b ppt 7 CS 213 F 00 Facilities Assignments will use Intel Computer Systems Cluster aka the fish machines 25 Pentium III Xeon servers donated by Intel for CS 213 550 MHz with 256 MB memory Rack mounted in the 3rd floor Wean machine room We ll be setting up your accounts this week Getting help with the cluster machines See Information about the Intel Cluster on the 213 homepage Please direct questions to the CS Help Desk identify yourself as a CS 213 student help cs cmu edu x8 4231 24x7 WeH 3613 9 5pm class01b ppt 8 CS 213 F 00 Part 1 Programs and data 12 Topics Bits operations arithmetic assembly language programs representation of C control and data structures object files processes asynchronous processing system programming Includes aspects of of architecture OS and compilers Assignments L1 Bit manipulation L2 Defusing a binary bomb H1 Human decompiler H2 Floating point H4 Concurrency processes threads and signals class01b ppt 9 CS 213 F 00 Part 2 Memory 8 Topics Memory management memory technology memory hierarchy address translation Includes aspects of architecture and OS Assignments L4 Dynamic memory allocation garbage collection H3 Address translation class01b ppt 10 CS 213 F 00 Part 3 Performance 2 Topics Code optimization control and data performance evaluation benchmarking Includes aspects of architecture and compilers Assignments L3 Optimizing cache performance class01b ppt 11 CS 213 F 00 Part 4 I O and Networking 5 Topics Networking as the most interesting form of I O Network technology protocol stacks TCP IP routing sockets internetworking network programming and Web programming Includes aspects of networking and architecture Assignments L5 building a chat server class01b ppt 12 CS 213 F 00 Lab Rationale Each lab should have a well defined goal such as solving a puzzle or winning a contest Defusing a binary bomb Winning a performance contest Being able to chat with your classmates Doing a lab should result in new skills and concepts Bit Manipulation computer arithmetic digital logic Bomb assembly language using a debugger Malloc GC understanding pointers and nasty memory bugs Cache profiling measurement performance debugging Chat network programming performance client server computing We try to use competition in a fun and healthy way Set a threshhold for full credit Post intermediate results anonymized on Web page for glory class01b ppt 13 CS 213 F 00
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