IN4000 – Operating Systems
Course description
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 for many years been successfully applied 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.
After completing the course you can:
- explain to others how an operating system is built and works,
- use operating system abstractions in your future applications you want to develop,
- use Intel manuals or similar to understand low-level software on their own,
- program routinely with Assembler and C
- write design documents
- present own design ideas and concepts to others in a short time in an understandable way.
Admission to the course
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 (IN3000 and IN4000 alltogether) can get admission to this course.
The following ranking order is used for admission to IN4000:
- Master students at Informatics; programming and system architecture?who have the course approved in their study plan
- Master student at Department of Informatics who have the course approved in their study plan
- Master student at Department of Informatics
- Others
Recommended previous knowledge
IN2010 – Algorithms and Data Structures/INF2220 – Algorithms and Data Structures (continued)/INF1020 – Algorithms and data structures (discontinued)
IN2140 – Introduction to operating systems and data communication
Overlapping courses
- 20 credits overlap with IN3000 – Operating Systems.
- 20 credits overlap with INF3151 – Operating systems (continued).
- 20 credits overlap with INF4151 – Operating systems (continued).
- 10 credits overlap with INF4160 – Operating systems II (discontinued).
- 10 credits overlap with INF3160 – Operating systems II (discontinued).
- 10 credits overlap with INF4150 – Operating systems - I (discontinued).
- 10 credits overlap with INF3150 – Operating systems - I (discontinued).
- 9 credits overlap with INF242.
- 3 credits overlap with IN142.
Teaching
Teaching takes place throughout the semester. 4 hours lectures and 4 hours of problem solving sessions per week.
It is strongly recommended to attend the first lecture since it will be given important information.
There will be given mandatory assignments.?Rules for mandatory assignments.
Examination
Six project assignment, where each part consist of one parctical and one theoretical part, twelve deliverables in total. All twelve project assignment must be accepted in order to complete the course.
Furthermore, it is mandatory to present oral design of the practical part.
The grade is decided upon the practical parts number 2, 3, 4 and 5 that each counts 25 %.?Read more about requirements for submission of assignments, group work and legal cooperation under guidelines for mandatory assignments.
It will also be counted as one of?your three?attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses:?IN3000 – Operating Systems, INF3151 – Operating systems (continued), INF4151 – Operating systems (continued)
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.
Resit an examination
In this course, postponed exams are not offered for exam candidates who are ill before the exam or who become ill during the exam. A deferred submission deadline may be offered. The illness must be documented with a doctor's certificate dated no later than the ordinary submission date. You must submit the doctor's certificate to the Student Administration at IFI before the submission deadline for the home exam.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.