Schedule for CSC 252, Spring 2011 (Tentative)
The following is my best guess as to the schedule for this term. Click on the unit name to see my lecture notes.
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Schedule for CSC 252, Spring 2011 (Tentative)The following is my best guess as to the schedule for this term. Click on the unit name to see my lecture notes. |
| Unit | Topics | Reading | Assignments |
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| Overview | |||
| Thur. Jan. 13 | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Get an account and set it up |
| Data representation | |||
| Tues. Jan. 18 | Overview | Chapter 2 | A1: datalab (bit twiddling) |
| Thur. Jan. 20 | Integers | A1 trivia due, noon | |
| Tues. Jan. 25 | Floating Point | ||
| Assembly-level programs | |||
| Thur. Jan. 27 | overview | Chapter 3 | A1 due midnight tomorrow; A2: the binary bomb |
| Tues. Feb. 01 | control flow | A2 trivia due, noon | |
| Thur. Feb. 03 | subroutines | ||
| Tues. Feb. 08 | structured data | ||
| Processor architecture | |||
| Thur. Feb. 10 | circuits and history | Chapter 4 intro; “asides” on RISC/CISC; Section 4.2.5 | A2 due midnight yesterday; A3: the buffer bomb |
| Tues. Feb. 15 | sequential implementation
guest lecture by Li Lu (Prof. Scott out of town) | Figures 4.22 and 4.23; Section 4.5.1 | A3 trivia due, noon |
| Thur. Feb. 17 | pipelining | Figures 4.40, 4.41, 4.52; Sections 4.4, 4.5.4–4.5.9 | |
| Tues. Feb. 22 | modern processors | Sections 4.5.13, 4.6, 5.7 | A4: written homework on pipelining |
| Optimizing performance | |||
| Thurs. Feb. 24 | the key performance formula; obstacles to compiling fast code | (rest of) Chapter 5 | A3 due midnight yesterday |
| Tues. Mar. 01 | catch up; midterm review | A4 due midnight yesterday | |
| Thur. Mar. 03 | Midterm Exam | ||
| Mar. 08 & 10 | UR spring break | ||
| The storage hierarchy | |||
| Tues. Mar. 15 | storage technology | Chapter 6 | A5: tuning performance |
| Thur. Mar. 17 | caching | A5 trivia due, noon | |
| Tues. Mar. 22 | performance tuning | ||
| Exceptional control flow | |||
| Thur. Mar. 24 | exceptions | Chapter 8 | |
| Tues. Mar. 29 | processes and signals | A5 due midnight yesterday; A6: Unix shell | |
| Thur. Mar. 31 | non-local jumps, linking | skim Chapter 7 | A6 trivia due, noon |
| Virtual memory | |||
| Tues. Apr. 05 | Address translation | Chapter 9 | |
| Thur. Apr. 07 | Pentium/Linux case study | ||
| Tues. Apr. 12 | Storage management | A6 due midnight yesterday; A7: memory allocation | |
| I/O and Networks | |||
| Thur. Apr. 14 | read, write, streams | Chapters 10 and 11 (skim all; read 10.1–10.3, 10.8–10.9, and 11.3–11.4 carefully) | A7 trivia due, noon |
| Concurrency | |||
| Tues. Apr. 19 | Threads and semaphores | Chapter 12 (skim all; read 12.3–12.6 carefully) | |
| Thur. Apr. 21 | Cache coherence | ||
| Tues. Apr. 26 | Transactional memory Wrap-up | A7 due 11:59pm Friday | |
| Sat. May 7 | Final Exam | 8:30am, CSB 601 | |
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