Winter 2014 SPO600 Weekly Schedule

Subject to Change
This weekly schedule will be updated as the course proceeds - dates and content are subject to change.

Week	Week of...	Tuesday - Class	Thursday - ALC/Lab	Deliverables
1	Jan 6	Introduction to Software Porting, Portability, Benchmarking, and Optimization	How is Code Accepted? - Analyze code submissions in two separate open source projects	Blog a commentary on code reviews in two communities
2	Jan 13	Assembly language, Machine code, and Architecture Distinctions	Hello World - Compile a basic C program and analyze the resultant binary	Set up a Fedora system and the ARMv8 Foundation Model
3	Jan 20	Writing in Assembler & Intro to Aarch64	Write Hello World in assembler - x86_64 and Aarch64	Given an x86_64 assembler program with a loop, write an Aarch64 version
4	Jan 27	Non-portable code & Git and other SCMS	Software Selection - Introduce the Class to your selected Software Projects	Blog about your selected software projects
5	Feb 3	Compiler Optimizations and Intrinsics	Compiler Optimization Lab - Observe GCC optimizations	Identify the machine-specific code in your selected projects
6	Feb 10	Porting - Adding platform-specific code for Aarch64	Group hack session - Porting	Port your projects
7	Feb 17	Portability - Removing platform-specific code	Group hack session - Portability	Remove platform-specific code from your projects
Study Week	Feb 24	Study Week
8	Mar 3	Project Work	Project Work	Get code into review
9	Mar 10	Benchmarking (I) - Baseline, Control, and Repeatability	Group hack session - Baseline benchmarks	Produce baseline benchmarks for your software
10	Mar 17	Benchmarking (II) - Change Impact	Group hack session - Impact of your Changes	Publish change impact stats for your software
11	Mar 24	Optimizing Code	Group hack - Profiling and optimizing	Code review update
12	Mar 31	Project Work	Project Work	Code review update
13	Apr 7	Conclusion	Final Presentations	Code accepted upstream
Exam Week	Apr 14	Exam Week - No exam in this course!