Schedule

References

CSAPP: Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective by Bryant and O’Hallaron, 3rd edition, Pearson, 2015
PCOD: Parallel Computer Organization and Design by Dubois, Annavaram and Stenström, Cambridge University Press, 2012
CAAQA: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennessy and Patterson, Morgan Kaufmann, 2017
GCH: Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management by Jones, Hosking, and Moss, CRC, 2023

Slides Index

Lectures:
UNIT 00 UNIT 01 UNIT 02 UNIT 03 UNIT 04 UNIT 05 UNIT 06 UNIT 07 UNIT 08 UNIT 09 UNIT 10 UNIT 11 UNIT 12 UNIT 13 UNIT 14 UNIT 15 UNIT 16
With blanks (for note-taking):
UNIT 00 UNIT 01 UNIT 02 UNIT 03 UNIT 04 UNIT 05 UNIT 06 UNIT 07 UNIT 08 UNIT 09 UNIT 10 UNIT 11 UNIT 12 UNIT 13 UNIT 14 UNIT 15 UNIT 16
Discussions (updated weekly):
DISC 01 DISC 02 DISC 03 DISC 04 DISC 05 DISC 06 DISC 07 DISC 08 DISC 09 DISC 10 DISC 11 DISC 12 DISC 13 DISC 14

Week 1 (Jan 13 ➙ Jan 17)

Tue Jan 14: Lecture 1 🚀 HelloLab UNIT 00
Course Overview
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (Online): Marco Paolieri
Thu Jan 16: Lecture 2 UNIT 01
Binary Representation (CSAPP 2.1)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (Online): Marco Paolieri
Fri Jan 17: Discussion 1 DISC 01
Binary Representation & Development Environment
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 2 (Jan 20 ➙ Jan 24)

Tue Jan 21: Lecture 3 ⏰ HelloLab 🚀 DataLab UNIT 02
Integer Operations (CSAPP 2.2-2.3)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Jan 23: Lecture 4 UNIT 02
Integer Operations (CSAPP 2.2-2.3)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Jan 24: Discussion 2 DISC 02
Bitwise Operations on Integers and DataLab
- 10-11:50am (LVL-17): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 3 (Jan 27 ➙ Jan 31)

Tue Jan 28: Lecture 5 UNIT 03
Floating Point Representation (CSAPP 2.4)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Jan 30: Lecture 6 UNIT 03 UNIT 04
FP Rounding, CPU Organization (CSAPP 3.1-3.4)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Jan 31: Discussion 3 DISC 03
Float Pitfalls and DataLab Puzzles
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 4 (Feb 03 ➙ Feb 07)

Tue Feb 04: Lecture 7 ⏰ DataLab 🚀 BombLab UNIT 04
Assembly Operations (CSAPP 3.5)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Feb 06: Lecture 8 UNIT 05
Assembly Operations, BombLab (CSAPP 3.5)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Feb 07: Discussion 4 DISC 04
x86-64, gdb, BombLab
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 5 (Feb 10 ➙ Feb 14)

Tue Feb 11: Lecture 9 UNIT 05
Assembly Operations (CSAPP 3.5)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Feb 13: Lecture 10 UNIT 06
Stack and Procedures (CSAPP 3.7, 3.8)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Feb 14: Discussion 5 DISC 05
Control Flow, Arrays, Procedures
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 6 (Feb 17 ➙ Feb 21)

Tue Feb 18: Lecture 11 UNIT 07
Conditional Flow (CSAPP 3.6)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Feb 20: Lecture 12 UNIT 08
Structs, Unions, Buffer Overflows (CSAPP 3.9, 3.10)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Feb 21: Discussion 6 DISC 06 ✏️ Midterm I
MT1 Review
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)
Midterm I
- 4-5:40pm: Check the exams page

Week 7 (Feb 24 ➙ Feb 28)

Tue Feb 25: Lecture 13 ⏰ BombLab 🚀 AttackLab UNIT 08
Buffer Overflow Attacks (CSAPP 3.10)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Feb 27: Lecture 14 UNIT 09
Introduction to ARM
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Feb 28: Discussion 7 DISC 07
Buffer Overflows and AttackLab
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 8 (Mar 03 ➙ Mar 07)

Tue Mar 04: Lecture 15 UNIT 10
Memory Hierarchy and Caches (CSAPP 3.10, 6.1-6.3)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Mar 06: Lecture 16 UNIT 10
Cache Organization (CSAPP 6.4)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Mar 07: Discussion 8 DISC 08
Review of C Programming
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 9 (Mar 10 ➙ Mar 14)

Tue Mar 11: Lecture 17 ⏰ AttackLab 🚀 CacheLab UNIT 10
Cache Performance (CSAPP 6.5-6.7)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Mar 13: Lecture 18 UNIT 11
Virtual Memory (CSAPP 9.1-9.3)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Mar 14: Discussion 9 DISC 09
Caches and CacheLab
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 10 (Mar 17 ➙ Mar 21)

Spring Recess

Week 11 (Mar 24 ➙ Mar 28)

Tue Mar 25: Lecture 19 UNIT 11
VM & Page Tables & TLBs (CSAPP 9.4-9.8)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Mar 27: Lecture 20 ⏰ CacheLab UNIT 11
Page Faults, MT2 Review (CSAPP 9.1-9.8)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Mar 28: Discussion 10 DISC 10
Virtual Memory
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 12 (Mar 31 ➙ Apr 04)

Tue Apr 01: Lecture 21 🚀 MallocLab UNIT 12
Dynamic Memory Allocation (CSAPP 9.9-9.12)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Apr 03: Lecture 22 UNIT 12
Dynamic Memory Allocation (GCH)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Apr 04: Discussion 11 DISC 11 ✏️ Midterm II
MT2 Review
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)
Midterm II
- 4-5:40pm: Check the exams page

Week 13 (Apr 07 ➙ Apr 11)

Tue Apr 08: Lecture 23 UNIT 13
Linking (CSAPP 7.1-7.12)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Apr 10: Lecture 24 UNIT 13
Linking (CSAPP 7.1-7.12)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Apr 11: Discussion 12 DISC 12
MallocLab
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 14 (Apr 14 ➙ Apr 18)

Tue Apr 15: Lecture 25 UNIT 14
Pipeline Organization (PCOD 3.3)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Apr 17: Lecture 26 UNIT 14
Pipeline Organization (PCOD 3.3)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Apr 18: Discussion 13 DISC 13
Processor Pipeline
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 15 (Apr 21 ➙ Apr 25)

Tue Apr 22: Lecture 27 UNIT 15
Advanced Processor Organization (PCOD 3.4)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu Apr 24: Lecture 28 ⏰ MallocLab UNIT 15
Advanced Processor Organization (PCOD 3.4)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Fri Apr 25: Discussion 14 DISC 14
Static and Dynamic Scheduling
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1 (Ali Abbasi)
- 12-1:50pm (GFS-116): Session 2 (Sheryl Paul)
- 2-3:50pm (GFS-106): Session 3 (Sulyab T. Valapu)

Week 16 (Apr 28 ➙ May 02)

Tue Apr 29: Lecture 29 UNIT 16
Cache Coherence (CAAQA 5.1-5.4)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri
Thu May 01: Lecture 30 UNIT 16
Cache Coherence (CAAQA 5.1-5.4)
- 2:00-3:20pm (MHP-101): Andrew Goodney
- 3:30-4:50pm (THH-201): Marco Paolieri

Week 17 (May 05 ➙ May 09)

Study Days

Week 18 (May 12 ➙ May 16)

Mon May 12: Final

Final
- 4:30-6:30pm: Check the exams page