Lecture Schedule

  • This schedule might change slightly during the quarter. The dates of the midterm and final exams, however, will not change.

  • Slides will be uploaded here (and on Canvas Files), usually before each lecture. The lectures themselves might often deviate significantly from the textbooks in the order, presentation, and actual content. Thus, it is mandatory to attend a lecture live or view its video asynchronously.

  • The industry guest lectures are not included in the syllabus for the exams. But they will be the focus of the extra credit Peer Evaluation activities.

Week Topic Textbook Chapters, Additional References Slides
0 Introduction and Administrivia - PDF PPTX
1-2 Basics of Machine Resources: Computer Organization Ch. 1, 2.1-2.3, 2.12, 4.1, and 5.1-5.5 of CompOrg Book PDF PPTX
1 Industry Guest Lecture on Fri, Sep 30
by Russell Kaplan (Scale AI)
- Video
2-3 Basics of Machine Resources: Operating Systems Ch. 2, 4.1-4.2, 6, 7, 13, 14.1, 18.1, 21, 22,
26, 36, 37, 39, and 40.1-40.2 of Comet Book
PDF PPTX
4 Basics of Cloud Computing - PDF PPTX
4 Industry Guest Lecture on Fri, Oct 21
by William Falcon (Lightning AI)
- Video
4-5 Parallel and Scalable Data Processing: Parallelism Basics Ch. 9.4, 12.2, 14.1.1, 14.6, 22.1-22.3,
22.4.1, 22.8 of Cow Book;
Ch. 5, 6.1, 6.3, 6.4 of MLSys Book
PDF PPTX
6-7 Parallel and Scalable Data Processing: Scalable Data Access Ch. 9.4, 12.2, 14.1.1, 14.6, 22.1-22.3,
22.4.1, 22.8 of Cow Book;
Ch. 5, 6.1, 6.3, 6.4 of MLSys Book
PDF PPTX
6 Review for Midterm Exam on Tue, Oct 31, 4-5pm PT - -
6 Midterm Exam on Wed, Nov 2 - -
7-8 Parallel and Scalable Data Processing: Data Parallelism Ch. 9.4, 12.2, 14.1.1, 14.6, 22.1-22.3,
22.4.1, 22.8 of Cow Book;
Ch. 5, 6.1, 6.3, 6.4 of MLSys Book
PDF PPTX
7 No class on Fri, Nov 11 (Veterans Day holiday)
8 Industry Guest Lecture on Wed, Nov 16
by Rehan Durrani and Alejandro Herrera (Modin and Ponder)
- Video
9-10 Dataflow Systems Ch. 2.2 of MLSys Book PDF PPTX
9 No class on Wed, Nov 23 and Fri, Nov 25 (Thanksgiving)
10 ML Model Building Systems Ch. 8-8.4 of MLSys Book PDF PPTX
10 Review for Final Exam on Fri, Dec 2, 4-5pm PT - -
11 Final Exam on Fri, Dec 9 - -