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!Week!!Week of...!!Tuesday - Class!!Friday - ALC/Lab!!Deliverables
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|1||Jan 6Sept 1||[[#Tuesday (Jan 7)|Introduction to Software Porting, Portability, Benchmarking, and Optimization]]||[[#Friday (Jan 10)|How is Code Accepted? - Analyze code submissions in two separate open source projects]]||[[#Week 1 Deliverables|Blog a commentary on code reviews in two communities]] (Lab 1)
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|2||Jan 13Sept 8||[[#Tuesday (Jan 14)|Computer Architecture Overview]]||[[#Friday (Jan 17)|Hello World - Compile a basic C program and analyze the resultant binary]]||[[#Week 2 Deliverables|Set up a Fedora system and the ARMv8 Foundation Model / Blog on binary analysis (Lab 2)]]
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|3||Jan 20Sept 15||[[#Tuesday (Jan 21)|Introduction to Assembly Language]]||[[#Friday (Jan 24)|x86_64 and Aarch64 Assembley Language]]||[[#Week 3 Deliverables|Blog about writing in assembly language (Lab 3)]]
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|4||Jan 27Sept 22||[[#Tuesday (Jan 28)|Lab 3 results, inline assembler, and compiler optimizations]]||[[#Friday (Jan 31)|Analyzing a codebase for assembler and non-portable code]]||[[#Week 3 Deliverables|Blog post about codebase analysis]]
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|5||Feb 3Sept 29||[[#Tuesday (Feb 4)|Memory Barriers and Atomics]]||[[#Friday (Feb 7)|Potential Project Analysis]]||[[#Week 5 Deliverables|Blog about your selected projects]]
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|6||Feb 10Oct 6||[[#Tuesday (Feb 11)|Architecture-specific Code for Performance]]||Group hack session - Porting||[[#Week 5 Deliverables|Identify the assembler in your projects and contact your upstream communities.]]
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|7||Feb 17Oct 13||Portability - Removing platform-specific code||Group hack session - Portability||Remove platform-specific code from your projects
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|Study Week||Feb 24Oct 20||colspan="3" align="center"|Study Week<br />'''[http://fsoss.ca FSOSS 2014] on Thursday-Friday'''
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|8||Mar 3Oct 27||Project Work||Project Work||Get code into review
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|9||Mar 10Nov 3||[[#Tuesday (March 11)|Status Update]]||[[#Friday (March 14)|Foundation Models]]||[[#Week 9 Deliverables|Install and Test With Foundation Model]]
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|10||Mar 17Nov 10||[[#Tuesday (March 18)|Profiling ]]||Baseline Profiling||[[#Week 10 Deliverables|Post baseline stats for your software]]
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|11||Mar 24Nov 17||Optimizing Code||Group hack - Profiling and optimizing||Code review update
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|12||Mar 31Nov 24||Using complier optimizations||Project Work||Code review update
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|13||Apr 7Dec 1||Final Presentations||(No class - Exams start)||Code accepted upstream
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|Exam Week||Apr 14Dec 8||colspan="3" align="center"|Exam Week - No exam in this course!
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!Category!!Percentage!!Evaluation Dates
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|Communication||align="right"|20%||Jan September 30, October 31, Feb 28, March 31November 21, April 13December 10
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|Quizzes||align="right"|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.
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|Labs||align="right"|10%||See deliverables column above.
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|Project work||align="right"|60%||Feb 28October 10, March 31November 21, April 13December 10
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