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.

For the Fall 2015 version of the weekly schedule, see 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)