| Lectures | Description | Must Read Papers | Optional Readings | Presenter | Hand-outs | Hand-ins |
| Jan. 24 | Introduction | Antonia Zhai | ||||
| Jan. 31 | Hardware Support for Speculative Threads |
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Venkatesan Packirisamy | ||
| Feb. 7 | Compiler Support for Speculative Threads |
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Kiran S Yellajyosula | Project Out | |
| Feb. 14 | Hardware support for security feature (Lecture) |
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Antonia Zhai | ||
| Feb. 21 | Path and data dependence profiling |
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Mrinal Nath | Project Proposal Due (Feb. 24) | |
| Feb. 28 | Dynamic Optimizations |
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Derwin Halim | ||
| Mar. 7 | Database Application Performance |
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Derwin Halim, Kiran S Yellajyosula | |||
| Mar. 14 | Spring Break | |||||
| Mar. 21 | Power consideration I (Lecture) | No Reading | No Reading | Antonia Zhai | Project Milestone Due | |
| Mar. 28 | Power Consideration (II) |
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Venkatesan Packirisamy, Mrinal Nath | |||
| Apr. 4 | Building Reliable Hardware |
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Mrinal Nath, Venkatesan Packirisamy | ||
| Apr. 11 | Building Reliable Software |
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Kiran S Yellajyosula, Antonia Zhai | ||
| Apr. 18 | Memory/Cache Performance |
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Derwin Halim, Antonia Zhai | ||
| Apr. 25 | Misc. |
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Antonia Zhai | Project report drafts are due for peer review / reviews are due on Apr. 27th | ||
| May 2 | Project Presentation | Project Due |