CS370: Operating Systems

Under revision for Fall 2025

Announcements: Course Objectives:
CS370 is a core undergraduate CS course. The objective of this course is to understand the broad range of issues that underlie the modern Operating Systems. We focus on key concepts and algorithms that are used in both commercial and open-source operating systems. This course will cover the following broad areas:

Operating systems - perspective, terminology, structure.
Processes, threads, concurrency and deadlocks
CPU Scheduling algorithms
Deadlocks and resource management
Memory - address translation and virtual memory
Storage architecture and File System
Virtual Machines, Containers and data centers

We may discuss advanced topics (security and reliability) and recent development based on time available.

Lecture Coordinates
Sec 001: Tu, Th 2-3:15 PM, Biology 136
Sec 801: Lectures available 1-2 hours after on-campus lectures on Canvas

Help Sessions Lectures
TBD (Perhaps some Wed or Thurs 5:30-6:15 as scheduled)

Instructors
Exapand email abreviation: C.E = colostate. edu Yashwant Malaiya Office: Room CSB 356 Office Hours: Wed 3-4 PM E-mail: malaiya at cs.C.E
Teaching Assistants
(OL: online only)
Graduate TA: Cameron Suess Cameron.Suess at C.E Hours: See Teams		Graduate TA: Anindya Roy Chowdury anindya.chowdhury at C.E Hours: see Teams
Graduate TA: Khondaker Masfiq Reza Masfiq.Reza at C.E Hours: see Teams
Undergraduate TA: Wilson Valentine wilvalen at C.E Hours: see Teams		Undergraduate TA: Kushal Reddy Alimineti kushalre at C.E Hours: See Teams
Undergraduate TA: Zacharie Guida C836238656 at C.E Office: see Teams