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{{Admon/important|It's Alive!|This [[SPO600]] weekly schedule will be updated as the course proceeds - dates and content are subject to change. The cells in the summary table will be linked to relevant resources and labs as the course progresses.}}
== Schedule Summary Table ==
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|9||Nov 9||[[#Tuesday (Nov 10)|Computer Architecture Overview]]||[[#Friday (Nov 13)|Assembler lab (Lab 54)]]||[[#Week 9 Deliverables|Blog about your project work and Lab 54.]]
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|10||Nov 16||[[#Tuesday (Nov 17)|SIMD and Auto-vectorization (Lab 6)Discussion & Hack Session]]||[[#Friday (Nov 20)|Discussion & Hack Session- Framework]]||[[#Week 10 Deliverables|Blog about your project progress - this will be used to assign your second project marks.]]
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|11||Nov 23||[[#Tuesday (Nov 24)|Project Status SIMD and Auto- Stage IIvectorization (Lab 5)]]||[[#Friday (Nov 27)|Synthesis of ResultsFramework Discussion and Hack Session]]||[[#Week 11 Deliverables|Blog about Lab 6 as well as SIMD/vectorization and your project(Lab 5).]]
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|12||Nov 30||[[#Tuesday (Dec 1)|Memory Barriers, Spinlocks, Inline Assembler, Benchmarking Discussions and Tail Call OptimizationsHack Session]]||[[#Friday (Dec 4)|Synthesis of project results.Memory Barriers, Spinlocks, Inline Assembler, and Tail Call Optimizations]]||[[#Week 12 Deliverables|Blog about your work.]]
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|13||Dec 7||[[#Tuesday (Dec 8)|Project Presentations Status - Stage 3II]]||style="background: #f0f0ff"|(Exams in progress - no class)||[[#Week 13 Deliverables|Blog about your project progress - this will be used to assign your 3rd project marks.]]
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|Exam Week||Dec 14||colspan="3" align="center"|Exam Week - No exam in this course!However, be sure to complete your '''[[#Final Deliverables|Final Deliverables]] by 11:59 pm on Friday, December 18'''.
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* Blog about the compiler options framework, and your work on that project.
* Blog about your selected project.
== Week 8 ==
=== Tuesday (Nov 3) ===
* No class scheduled - your [[User:Chris Tyler|prof]] is in Whitehorse, YK at an NSERC workshop.
* Please work on your [[Fall 2015 SPO600 Course Project|project]], and be ready to present on Friday.
=== Friday (Nov 6) ===
* Present your Stage I results for your [[Fall 2015 SPO600 Course Project|project]].
=== Week 8 Deliverables ===
* Blog about your [[Fall 2015 SPO600 Course Project|stage I project results]]. This will be used to assign the first marks for your project.
== Week 9 ==
=== Tuesday (Nov 10) ===
* [[Computer Architecture]] overview (see also the [[:Category:Computer Architecture|Computer Architecture Category]])
=== Friday (Nov 13) ===
* [[SPO600 Assembler Lab|Assembly language lab]] (lab 4)
=== Week 9 Deliverables ===
* Blog about your project progress (2+ posts per week).
* Blog the [[SPO600 Assembler Lab|Assembly language lab]] -- include your results, a link to your source code, and your reflections on the experience.
== Week 10 ==
=== Tuesday (Nov 17) ===
* Discussion & Hack Session
** [[SPO600 Assembler Lab|Assembly language lab (Lab 4) results]]
** Testing Framework
=== Friday (Nov 20) ===
* Hack session on the Testing Framework
=== Week 10 Deliverables ===
* Blog about your project work
* Blog about your Lab 5 results
== Week 11 ==
=== Tuesday (Nov 22) ===
* SIMD and Vectorization
* [[SPO600 Vectorization Lab|Vectorization Lab (Lab 6)]]
=== Friday (Nov 25) ===
* Discussion of the State of the Framework
* Hack Session
=== Week 11 Deliverables ===
* Blog your [[SPO600 Vectorization Lab|Lab 6]] results.
== Week 12 ==
=== Tuesday (Dec 1) ===
* Stage II Results - Brief Presentations
=== Friday (Dec 4) ===
* '''No Class''' - Early start to Exam Week
=== Week 12 Deliverables ===
* Blog about your Project Status - Stage II Results
** Provide results for the various flag combinations you tested
** Discuss the results, highlighting any anomalies
== Final Deliverables ==
* Blog about your Project Status - Stage III Results
** Important: Incorporate any feedback on your Stage II results
** Outline what you learned from your investigation into various combination of GCC flags
** Discuss what the upstream projects should do based on these results
** Communicate the results to the upstream project, if appropriate
** Outline further investigation that should be undertaken
* Blog a reflective blog post on the course
** What you have learned
** What you already knew
** What was good or bad about the way the course proceeded]
** How you might use this knowledge in the future
* This is the last chance to submit any lab postings, etc.
'''All blog postings must be in by Friday, December 18, at 11:59 pm to be included in the final grade.'''
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