Link to this page: https://bit.ly/CS-HS25-Materials

Course Materials

• Moodle (can find all course materials here & there is a Q&A forum to ask questions)
• Script (can be downloaded on Moodle) - will be rewritten & re-uploaded periodically this year (especially the DS part)
• Lecture Recordings
• Past Exams
• Course-recommended Textbooks (not mandatory to read):
  • OS: Operating Systems - principles and practice, Anderson & Dahlin
  • DS: Distributed Systems, Van Steen & Tanenbaum
• xv6 (instructional OS) source code

Additional Materials - Operating Systems

• Another OS textbook that can be found online (not recommended by Prof though): link (use with ETH VPN to see online)

Additional Materials - Distributed Systems (this year)

• Course where some material is derived from: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall22/cos418/schedule.html
• Papers for some algorithms (feel free to look up any algorithms you have questions about)
  • Original Paxos paper (a bit confusing, but also amusing - it talks about a fictious Greek island called Paxos) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/part-time-parliament/
  • Original Raft paper (definitely easier to read than Paxos) https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
  • Original BFT paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/571637.571640

Additional Materials - Distributed Systems (last year)

❗This part will change significantly this year, so this material is potentially outdated

• Last year’s course homepage
• Youtube videos from 2024 for 2nd part (Distributed Systems): Computational Thinking
• Other Youtube distributed systems courses: link , link

Summary of OS Part