Course Schedule

Being less concrete further out, the course scheduling is tentative and subject to changes.

Week 1	Tue, Jan 14 Lec1-Introduction	Thu, Jan 16 Lec2-AWS Academy, EC2, and Linux shell Assignment 0 out
Week 2	Tue, Jan 21 Lec3-Processes, threads	Thu, Jan 23 Lec4-Caching I
Week 3	Tue, Jan 28 Lec4-Caching II	Thu, Jan 30 Assignment 0 Due at 11:00 am Lec5-Python numeric types Assignment 1 out
Week 4	Tue, Feb 04 Lec6a-Python parallelism I	Tue, Feb 06 Lec6b-Python parallelism II
Week 5	Tue, Feb 11 Class cancelled (snow day)	Thu, Feb 13 Lec7a-GFS-HDFS
Week 6	Tue, Feb 18 Assignment 1 Due at 11:00 am Lec7b-MapReduce Assignment 2 out	Thu, Feb 20 Lec8-Spark RDD
Week 7	Tue, Feb 25 Class cancelled (university locked down)	Thu, Feb 27 Midterm review
Week 8	Tue, Mar 04 Midterm (2pm - 3:15pm)	Thu, Mar 06 Assignment 2 Due at 11:00 am Lec9-Ray Assignment 3 out
Week 9	Tue, Mar 11 Spring Recess (no class)	Wed, Mar 13 Spring Recess (no class)
Week 10	Tue, Mar 18 Lec10-GenAI at Amazon	Thu, Mar 20 Lec11-LLMs as OS
Week 11	Tue, Mar 25 Lec12-LLM fairness	Thu, Mar 27 Lec13-Cloud computing fundamentals
Week 12	Tue, Apr 01 Assignment 3 Due at 11:00 am Lec14-Scaling LLM serving Assignment 4 out	Thu, Apr 03 Lec15-LLM compression, training, and serving
Week 13	Tue, Apr 08 Lec16-Serverless computing	Thu, Apr 10 Lec17-GPU-efficient notebooks
Week 14	Tue, Apr 15 Lec18-AWS S3	Thu, Apr 17 Lec19a-Amazon Dynamo I
Week 15	Tue, Apr 22 Assignment 4 Due at 11:00 am Lec19b-Amazon Dynamo II	Thu, Apr 24 Final review
Week 16	Tue, Apr 29 Lec20-Hugging Face and XetHub	Thu, May 01 Reading day
Week 17	Tue, May 06 Reading day	Thu, May 08 Final exam (9:00am - 11:00am)