Winter 2016 SPO600 Weekly Schedule

This is a draft only!
It is still under construction and content may change. Do not rely on this information.

• Previous semester: Fall 2015 SPO600 Weekly Schedule.

Schedule Summary Table

This is a summary/index table. Please follow the links in each cell for additional detail which will be added below as the course proceeds -- especially for the Deliverables column.

Week	Week of...	Tuesday	Friday	Deliverables (Summary - click for details)
1	Jan 11	Introduction to Software Porting, Portability, Benchmarking, and Optimization / How is code accepted into an open source project? (Lab 1)	Compiled C Lab (Lab 2)	Set up accounts, and blog a comparison of code reviews in two communities (Lab 1) and a comparison of code compiled with various compiler options (Lab 2).
2	Jan 18	Compiled C Lab (Lab 2)	Compiler Optimizations	Blog about the Compiled C Lab (Lab 2)
3	Jan 25	Compiled C Lab (Lab 2)	Compiler Optimizations	Be prepared to present your topic.
4	Feb 1	Presentations on compiler options.	Algorithm Selection Lab (Lab 3)	Blog about your presentation and about your experience building code (Lab 3).
5	Feb 8	Discussion/hacking on the Algorithm Selection Lab (Lab 3)	Algorithm Selection (continued) and Benchmarks	Blog your Lab 3 results.
6	Feb 15	Algorithm Selection (continued) / Start to plan a compiler options test tool.	Plan & build a compiler options test tool.	Blog about your design recommendations for the compiler options test tool.
7	Feb 22	Build the compiler options test tool.	Project selection.	Blog about the compiler options test tool and your selected project.
Study Week	Feb 29	Study Week - No classes! Please plan to attend FSOSS 2015 on Thursday/Friday
8	Mar 7	Linaro Connect - No classes. Prepare for your presentation.		Prepare for your presentation.
9	Mar 14	Computer Architecture Overview	Assembler lab (Lab 4)	Blog about your project work and Lab 4.
10	Mar 22	Discussion & Hack Session	Discussion & Hack Session - Framework	Blog about your project progress.
11	Mar 28	SIMD and Auto-vectorization (Lab 5)	Framework Discussion and Hack Session	Blog about SIMD/vectorization (Lab 5).
12	Apr 4	Benchmarking Discussions and Hack Session	Memory Barriers, Spinlocks, Inline Assembler, and Tail Call Optimizations	Blog about your work.
13	Apr 11	Project Status - Stage II	Wrap-up Discussion	Blog about your project progress - this will be used to assign your 3rd project marks.
Exam Week	Dec 14	Exam Week - No exam in this course!

Evaluation

Category	Percentage	Evaluation Dates
Communication	20%	5% each: End of January, end of February, end of March, end of course.
Quizzes	10%	May be held during any class, usually at the start of class. A minimum of 5 one-page quizzes will be given. No make-up/retake option is offered if you miss a quiz. Lowest 3 scores will not be counted.
Labs	10%	See deliverables column above.
Project work	60%	3 stages: 15% (TBA) / 20% (TBA) / 25% (TBA)