The course schedule and the reading list are tentative and subject to change*.
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| Week | Wednesday | Friday |
| Week 1 | Jan 26 Lec 1: Introduction [slides] |
Jan 28 Take prerequisite quiz Fill out background survey Project list released: Pick your idea+form a team |
| Week 2 | Feb 2 Lec 2: Basic scheduling [slides] [slides+notes] Reading: LDE and Scheduling (intro) |
Feb 4 Form a team due |
| Week 3 | Feb 9 Lec 3: Advanced scheduling [slides] [slides+notes] Reading: MLFQ, Multi-core Sched (Linux), man 7 sched, and Linux CFS |
Feb 11 Pick a project idea due |
| Week 4 | Feb 16 Lec 4: Memory virtualization (fundamental) [slides] [slides+notes] Reading: Address spaces, Address translation, Paging, TLB, and Adv. PTs Optional: Meltdown attack paper, CACM article |
Feb 18 |
| Week 5 | Feb 23 Lec 4 (cont.): Memory virtualization (fundamental) |
Feb 25 Project proposal due |
| Week 6 | Mar 2 Lec 5: Memory virtualization (advanced) [slides] [slides+notes] Reading: Beyond physical memory: Mechanisms, (Caching) Policy |
Mar 4 |
| Week 7 | Mar 9 Mini exam 1 (7:20pm - 7:50pm) Lec 6: Concurrency I [slides] [slides+notes] Reading: Threads, Concurrency intro, Locks, and Semaphores |
Mar 11 |
| Week 8 | Mar 16 Spring recess |
Mar 18 |
| Week 9 | Mar 23 Lec 7: Concurrency II [slides] [slides+notes] Reading: CV, Deadlocks |
Mar 25 Project checkpoint 1 due |
| Week 10 | Mar 30 Lec 8: Persistence (fundamental): HDD, SSD, FS abstraction [slides] [pptx+notes] Reading: HDDs, SSDs, and File system intro |
Apr 1 |
| Week 11 | Apr 6 Lec 9: Persistence (advanced): FS impl, RAID, InfiniCache [lecture slides] [infinicache slides] Reading: file system implementation, and RAID |
Apr 8 |
| Week 12 | Apr 13 Mini exam 2 (7:20pm - 8:20pm) Lec 10: Virtualization (VM, container) |
Apr 15 Project checkpoint 2 due |
| Week 13 | Apr 20 Lec 11: MapReduce, GFS [slides] [slides+notes] Reading: MapReduce+GFS paper [reading list] |
Apr 22 |
| Week 14 | Apr 27 Lec 12: Spark (Resilient Distributed Datasets) [slides (pdf)] [slides (pptx)] [pptx+notes] PageRank example (slides #43-44) [notes] Reading: Spark paper [reading list] |
Apr 29 |
| Week 15 | May 4 Final project presentation (Session I) Mini exam 3 (12am, 05/04 - 11:59pm, 05/06) |
May 6 Final project presentation (Session II) |
| Week 16 | May 11 Project everything due |
May 13 |
*: Color codings:
| -CPU Virtualization- | -Memory Virtualization- | -Concurrency- | -Persistence- | -VMs/Containers- | -Distributed Systems- |