CS527: Computer Systems

Logistics:

Class timings: 

• Monday (10AM to 11AM)

• Tuesday (10AM to 11AM)

• Wednesday (10AM to 11AM)

Venue: Seminar room. S Ramanujan Block

Lab: Tuesday (11AM to 12:50PM).  Venue: Lab 3, Room number 202. S Ramanujan Block

TA:  

Lalit Sharma (lalit.19csz0005@iitrpr.ac.in)

Office hours: 

• Send an email to get the appointment 

Digital platforms

• Google classroom for discussions, announcements and distribution of notes

Class Schedule (Tentative)

Course duration is  August 3, 2021 to  Nov 27, 2021. The tentative schedule is as follows. A few topics may be added or removed based on class progress

• Week 1:  Aug 1, 2021 

  • L1 : Introduction to computer systems (section 1.2, 1.3)

  • L2: Running hello word on system (Section 1.4 to 1.6)

  • L3: Information representation (Chapter 2,  a few topics from 2.1 and 2.2)

• Week 2:  August 8, 2021

  • Public holiday on Aug 9 (Tuesday)

  • Aug 13 (Thursday) will work as Tuesday

  • L4: Why to study assembly. Introduction of ISA (introduction of chapter 3)

  • L5: Lecture postponed

  • L6: Program encoding (section 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)

• Week 3: August 15, 2021

  • Public holiday on August 15 (Monday) and August 19 (Friday)

  •  Last date for Add/drop August 16

  • L5 : Data movement (section 3.4)

  • L7 : Arithmetic instructions (section 3.5)

  • L8: Control instructions (section 3.6)

• Week 4: August 22, 2021

  • CCM I

  • August 23 (Tuesday) works as Friday

  • L9: Loops and functions (section 3.6 and 3.7)

  • L10: Arrays (Section 3.8, 3.9, 3.10.3)

• Week 5: August 29, 2021

  • L11 : Pipeline, stalls, forwarding, branch predictio

  • L12: Multiple issue, speculation

  • L13: out-of-order,  SMT

• Week 6: Sept 5, 2021

  • L14: Generic compiler optimisations (5.1 to 5.7) 

  • L15: Loop unrolling, enhancing parallelism (section 5.8 and 5.9)

  • L16: Understanding bottlenecks

• Week 7: Sept 12, 2021

  • L17: Memory technology (section 6.1)

  • L18 - Review cache hierarchy (section 6.2 to 6.5)

  • L19  - Impact of cache on program performance and cache aware code (Section 6.6)

• Week 8: Sept 19, 2021 

  • L20 - Hardware optimizations - caches and AMAT

  • L21 - buffer

  • Mid term from Sept 21 to Sept 27

• Sept 26, 2021

  • Mid term

  • No class on Sept 28

• Week 9: Oct 3, 2021

  • CCM II

  • Public holiday on Oct 5

  • Oct 6 (Thursday) will work as Friday

  • L22 - Mid-term exam analysis

  • L23 - Mid-term exam analysis

• Week 10: Oct 10, 2021

  • Last date for withdraw/audit

  • L24 - Linking (section 7.1 to 7.5)

  • L25 - Symbol resolution (7.6, 7.7))

  • L26 - Executable code, loading executable code, static and dynamic linking (7.8 to 7.12)

• Week 11: Oct 17,  2021

  • L27 - Process and interrupts (8.2)

  • L28 - classes of exceptions (8.1, 8.3)

  • L29 - Fork, reaping (8.4)

• Week 12: Oct 24, 2021

  • Oct 29 (Saturday) will work as Monday

  • Oct 24 public holiday

  • L30 - Signals (8.5)

  • L31 - Signals (8.5) and non-local jumps (8.6)

  • L32 - 

• Week 13: Oct 31, 2021

  • L33

  • L34

  • L35

• Week 14: Nov 7, 2021

  • Public holiday on Nov 8

  • Nov 12 (Saturday) works as Monday

  • L36

  • L37

  • L38

• Week 15: Nov 14, 2021

  • L39

  • L40

  • L41

• Week 16: Nov 21, 2021

  • End term exam Non 21 to Nov 30 

Assignments

Each lab assignment will be 3-4 week long. 

Assignment 1 : File manager.  

Assignment 2 : Page manager

Assignment 3:  Memory manager

Assignment 4:  Chat client

Project: You need to demonstrate some of the concepts of computer system using visualisation. 

Project timeline:

• Proposal date

• First evaluation:

• Second evaluation:

• Final submission:

Grading scheme

• Mid term (25%)

• End term (30%)

• Lab assignments (25%)

• Project (10%) 

• Class participation (in-class quizzes and in-class assignments) (10%) 

  • 80% would be considered for evaluation. Each in-class activity would account for 1 point. If total activities were 40, then maximum marks in class participation would be 32 which in tern would be scaled to 10 points. 

General guidelines:

-        All the submissions should be on time. Delayed submission will attract penalty at the rate of 10% per day.  After delay of 10 days, no marks will be given to a assignment. 

-        Plagiarism of any sort (from internet resource or from friends) will be heavily penalised. In case, the case of copy is from other students of the course, both parties will get negative marks equal to double the weightage of assignment/submission. In second instance will be given F.

Books

Text Books

1. Computer Systems – A programmer;s perspective by R. E. Bryant and D. R. O’Hallaron, Pearson publisher, 3rd edition (most of the content will be covered from this book)

2. Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software approach, by David E Culler, J.P Singh and Anoop Gupta. Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann. 1999.

3. Compilers – Principles, Techniques and Tools by Aho, Sethi and Ulmann, Publisher: Pearson, 2nd edition (this is required for week 1)