The labs and assignments are meant to help you better understand the material and improve your intuition. The labs use common problems and there are therefore plenty of “solutions” available on the web. This is a graduate level class and I expect you to ignore these resources so that you can gain the most out of your effort and work. Looking at available material after you are done thinking about things yourself is encouraged; just document your original work and additional improvements you may have made based on the ideas of others.
Don’t forget to cite all the sources you used.
Required Reading 1
Out: 8/24/2011 Due:8/31/2011
Please see reading for lecture 2
Lab 1 — locality in a CPU
Out: 8/31/2011 Due:9/9/2011,9/23/2011,9/30/2011
Please see detailed Lab 1 description.
