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| Aug 25 | L1 Introduction |  |
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| Aug 27 | L2 Message Passing & Shared Memory | |
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| Aug 29 | PA1 Introduction | |
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| Sep 1 | Labor Day - No Class | ||||
| Sep 3 | L3 Shared-Memory and Synchronization | |
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| Sep 5 | PA1 Continued | |
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| Sep 8 | L4 Synchronization | |
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| Sep 10 | L5 Transactional Memory | |
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| Sep 12 | Project Introduction | |
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| Sep 15 | L6 Data-level Parallelism | |
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| Sep 17 | L7 Snooping Coherence | |
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| Sep 22 | L8 Bus-Based SMPs | |
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| Sep 24 | L9 Directory-based Coherence | |
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| Sep 26 | PA2 Introduction | ||||
| Sep 29 | L10 Memory Consistency I | |
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| Oct 1 | L11 End-to-End SC | |
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| Oct 6 | L12 Weaker Consistency Models | |
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| Oct 8 | L13 Midterm Review | |
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| Oct 13 | Fall Study Break - No Class | ||||
| Oct 15 | Midterm Exam 6:00-7:30pm | ||||
| Oct 20 | L14 GPUs | |
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| Oct 22 | L15 GPU Programming | |
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| Oct 27 | L16 GPU Optimizations | |
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| Oct 29 | L17 Accelerators Intro | |
PA2 Waypoint | ||
| Nov 3 | L18 ML Accelerators I | |
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| Nov 5 | L19 ML Accelerators II | |
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| Nov 10 | L20 Genomics Accelerators | |
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| Nov 12 | L21 Interconnect Intro | |
PA2 Due | ||
| Nov 17 | L22 Interconnects: Topology + Routing I | ||||
| Nov 19 | L23 Interconnects: Routing II & Flow Control | ||||
| Nov 24 | L24 Interconnects: Router Microarchitecture | ||||
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving Recess - No Class | ||||
| Nov 28 | Thanksgiving Recess - No Class | ||||
| Dec 1 | L25 | ||||
| Dec 3 | Project Poster Presentations | ||||
| Dec 8 | Classes End | ||||
| Dec 12 | Final Exam 1:30-3:30pm |