Week 02 Notes for CS 3750 -- Fall 2005

• Take Roll.
  
  
• Check to see if there are any computer account problems
  
  
• Announcement(s)
  
  
  • Discussion of the Homework?
    
    
• Lecture Topic(s):
  • Programs, Processes, & Threads
  • State, Context, Process Control Blocks
  • Device, Wait, and Ready Queues
  • Scheduling: long, medium, and short term
  • Process creation: e.g. Fork and Exec
  • IPC: Shared Memory and Message Passing
    • msg passing easy to implement but can be slow
    • shared mem fast but hard to implement and sync must be done carefully
  • Bounded Buffer Problem - example of IPC using shared memory