Fall 2022 SPO600 Weekly Schedule

This is the schedule and main index page for the SPO600 Software Portability and Optimization course for Fall 2022.

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Schedule Summary Table

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Week	Week of...	Class I Wednesday 11:40-1:25	Class II Friday 11:40-1:25	Deliverables (Summary - click for details)
1	Sep 5	Introduction to the Course / Introduction to the Problem / Computer Architecture Basics	Binary Representation of Data	Set up for the course / Lab 1
2	Sep 12	Introduction to 6502 Assembly	Writing and Debugging 6502 Code / Assembly Language Conventions / Using Macros Effectively	Lab 2
3	Sep 19	6502 Math / Jumps, Branches, and Subroutines	6502 Strings	Lab 3
4	Sep 26	Compiler Optimizations	(No lecture - continue work on Lab 3)	Lab 3, January blog posts
5	Oct 3	Building Code / Make and Makefiles / Autotools and Friends	Introduction to 64-bit Architectures - Registers (x86_64 and AArch64) / Memory Issues	Lab 3
6	Oct 10	64-Bit Assembly Language - Part 1	64-Bit Assembly Language - Part 2	Lab 4
7	Oct 17	Optimization Trade-Off / Algorithm Selection / Benchmarking	SIMD / Algorithm Selection	Lab 5
Reading	Oct 24	Reading Week		February Blog Posts due at 11:59 pm Feb 28
8	Oct 31	Sclable Vector Extensions v2 (SVE2)	Project Stage 1	Lab 6
9	Nov 7	Project Discussion 1	---	Blog about project work
10	Nov 14	Project Discussion 2	GCC and SVE2	Blog about project work
11	Nov 21	Project Discussion 3	SVE2 Examples	Project Stage 1 (March 28), March Blog Posts (March 31)
12	Nov 28	Demo/discussion of SVE 2 Examples	SVE2 Examples Part 2	Blog about project work
13	Dec 5	Memory Systems	TBA	Blog about project work
14	Dec 12	Future Directions in Architecture	Project Stage 3	Project Stage 3, April Blog Posts