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Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in computer science intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

This course will teach you how to understand and build the high performance computing systems that make up everything from supercomputers to embedded devices. This seminar course will exploring performance pitfalls in a high-level programming language, descending through the compiler, assembly, eventually hardware level to explore how to build fast code. Topics may include: algorithmic performance engineering, parallelism, memory hierarchies, and beyond.