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 Snow day (class cancelled)	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 Lec9a-Ray API 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-AWS AI	Thu, Mar 20 Assignment 3 Due at 11:00 am Lec11a-LLM systems Assignment 4 out
Week 11	Tue, Mar 25 Lec11b-LLM fairness	Thu, Mar 27 Lec11c-LLM compression
Week 12	Tue, Apr 01 Lec12-Cloud computing	Thu, Apr 03 Lec13-Serverless computing
Week 13	Tue, Apr 08 Lec14-GPU-efficient notebooks	Thu, Apr 10 Assignment 4 Due at 11:00 am Lec15-Serverless LLM
Week 14	Tue, Apr 15 Lec16a-Cloud storage systems (AWS S3)	Thu, Apr 17 Lec16b-Cloud storage systems (Amazon Dynamo I)
Week 15	Tue, Apr 22 Lec16c-Cloud storage systems (Amazon Dynamo II)	Thu, Apr 24 Lec17a-Hugging Face architecture
Week 16	Tue, Apr 29 Reading days	Thu, May 01 Reading days
Week 17	Tue, May 06 Reading days	Thu, May 08 Final exam (9:00am - 11:00am)