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{{Admon/important|Subject to Change|This weekly schedule will be updated as the course proceeds - dates and content are subject to change.}}{|cellspacing="0" width= Week 1 "100%" cellpadding="5" border="1"|-!Week!!Week of...!!Tuesday - Class!!Thursday - ALC/Lab!!Deliverables|-* |1||Jan 6||Introduction to Computer ArchitectureSoftware 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 language code, and Architecture Distinctions||Hello World - Compile a basic C program and Instruction analyze the resultant binary||Set Architectureup a Fedora system and the ARMv8 Foundation Model* Assembly Language|-* Porting vs Portable|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* Open Source|-|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=== ToDo ===|-* Select two open source communities. |5||Feb 3||Compiler Optimizations and Intrinsics||Compiler Optimization Lab - Observe GCC optimizations||Identify how they operate, specifically: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|-** Where the |7||Feb 17||Portability - Removing platform-specific code||Group hack session - Portability||Remove platform-specific code is keptfrom your projects** How the community communicates|-** How people join the community|Study Week||Feb 24||Colspan="3"|Study Week** Who the gatekeepers are (e.g. module maintainers)|-** The |8||Mar 3||Project Work||Project Work||Get code into review process** The size|-|9||Mar 10||Benchmarking (I) - Baseline, ageControl, and maturity of the communityRepeatability||Group hack session - Baseline benchmarks||Produce baseline benchmarks for your software|-** The health of the community |10||Mar 17||Benchmarking (from Vibrant to MoribundII)- Change Impact||Group hack session - Impact of your Changes||Publish change impact stats for your software|-* Read through the entirety of two code reviews, one |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||April 14||colspan="3"|Exam Week - No exam in each community.this course!* Write a blog post comparing the two communities.|}