CS3204

CS 3204 Programming Projects Fall 2009

We will be using Pintos for this semester's projects. This page applies to all sections of CS 3204.

Please see Updates for updates that were made to the Pintos documentation or code.

Due Dates

Project Help Session Groups Formed By Due Date Time Left Project Design Document
0none N/A Sep 6, 11:59pm2009-09-06 23:59:59 GMT-04:00 IndividualN/A
1 M Sep 7, 6-8pm MCB 202
Slides: pdf ppt
Sep 9 Sep 29, 11:59pm2009-09-29 23:59:59 GMT-04:00 GroupIndividual*
2 Th Oct 1, 6-8pm MCB 202
Slides: pdf ppt
Sep 30 Oct 19, 11:59pm2009-10-19 23:59:59 GMT-04:00 GroupIndividual*
3 (MS)Design Milestone N/A Oct 23 11:59pm
(no extensions)
2009-10-23 23:59:59 GMT-04:00 GroupGroup
3 M Oct 26, 6-8pm MCB 202
Slides: pdf ppt
Oct 23 Nov 10, 11:59pm2009-11-10 23:59:59 GMT-04:00 GroupGroup
4 M Nov 16, 6-8pm MCB 202
Slides: pdf ppt
Nov 12 Dec 9, 11:59pm 2009-12-09 23:59:59 GMT-05:00 GroupGroup

Project 0 is an individual project. The remaining projects require group work.

For the group projects, you must have committed to a group by the date indicated. You may not switch groups during the project for which you have committed. You may form groups of either 3 (recommended!) or 2 students, even across sections.

Important Note: Barring extenuating circumstances, we will not accept a project submission from you unless we have received notification from you that you have formed a group.

Send information about which groups have formed to cs3204-staff@cs.vt.edu. Here is a list of available students. Use your SLO login to get access to this list. We will keep this list up-to-date as you tell us who you're teaming up with.

(*) For some group projects, we ask that you prepare an individual design document. Members of a group are allowed to discuss the content of this document, but copying is not allowed. Each group member must have created their design document independently.

 

Submission Instructions

Submission instructions for all projects, please replace '0' with the appropriate number:

   1. In the 'pintos/src' directory, issue the command 

   tar cvzf project0-yourpid.tgz *

   Note: the "pintos" directory is wherever you keep a working
	copy of Pintos.  It does not need to be named "pintos".

   2. Upload project0-yourpid.tgz using the submission web page.
   To access the submission page, log on with your CS SLO account 
   (that's the same account you use to log on to rlogin.cs.vt.edu).

   Alternatively, you may directly submit from the command line 
   using the command
   submit.pl p0 project0-yourpid.tgz

   This command is found in ~cs3204/bin.

Note: Please issue a "make clean" command before submitting projects 1 through 4. The submission script will not accept files larger than 500,000 bytes.

Following these instructions ensures that the GTA's can use scripts to extract, build, and grade your submissions. The penalty for violating the instructions is a 10 point deduction; we will give you 2 warnings, however.

 

Honor Code Pledge

Honor Code Pledge: This honor code pledge must be included in the source file for project 0. Please include it as part of the design template documents for projects 1 through 4, see below.

Project 0: User-level Memory Allocator

Project 0 Specification.

Project 0 - A list of common mistakes.

 

Projects 1 - 4: Pintos

how to boot Pintos on your own PC

All of the remaining four projects are posted here together. If you want to think ahead while you write your code, feel free—in fact, we recommend it. But keep in mind that until the deadline for the current project, the details of the future projects are subject to change.

 

Using CVS

The use of a CVS repository is required for these projects.

Coding Standards

The following portions of the documentation are relevant with respect to coding standards in as much as they affect your grade:

Read them carefully, in particular Section 1.2.2.2 Source Code.

Basic Information about Pintos

You should read everything below before attempting any of the projects:

You'll want to read these once you start work on the projects. Their advice can save you a lot of time:

Bracketed notations in Pintos source code comments can be looked up in the Bibliography.

 

Project 1: Threads

 

Project 2: Multiprogramming

 

Project 3: Virtual Memory

 

Project 4: File Systems

 

Updates

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