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 Lec6-Python parallelism	Tue, Feb 06 Lec8a-GFS-HDFS
Week 5	Tue, Feb 11 Lec8b-MapReduce	Thu, Feb 13 Assignment 1 Due at 11:00 am Lec9a-Spark RDD Assignment 2 out
Week 6	Tue, Feb 18 Lec9b-Spark internals	Thu, Feb 20 Lec10-AWS AI
Week 7	Tue, Feb 25 Midterm review	Thu, Feb 27 Assignment 2 Due at 11:00 am Midterm (2pm - 3:15pm) Assignment 3 out
Week 8	Tue, Mar 04 Lec11a-Ray API	Thu, Mar 06 Lec11b-Ray internals
Week 9	Tue, Mar 11 Spring Recess (no class)	Wed, Mar 13 Spring Recess (no class)
Week 10	Tue, Mar 18 Lec11c-Ray in production	Thu, Mar 20 Assignment 3 Due at 11:00 am Lec12a-LLM systems Assignment 4 out
Week 11	Tue, Mar 25 Lec12b-LLM fairness	Thu, Mar 27 Lec12c-LLM compression
Week 12	Tue, Apr 01 Lec14-Cloud computing	Thu, Apr 03 Lec15a-Serverless computing
Week 13	Tue, Apr 08 Lec16-GPU-efficient notebooks	Thu, Apr 10 Assignment 4 Due at 11:00 am Lec17-Serverless LLM
Week 14	Tue, Apr 15 Lec18a-Cloud storage systems (AWS S3)	Thu, Apr 17 Lec18b-Cloud storage systems (Amazon Dynamo I)
Week 15	Tue, Apr 22 Lec18c-Cloud storage systems (Amazon Dynamo II)	Thu, Apr 24 Lec19a-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)