Course assignments consist of 5 homeworks and a course project.

• HW1
• Part a: Getting started with Hadoop in standalone and on Amazon. Due September 1.
• Part b: Further Hadoop basics and use at TACC. Due September 8.
• HW2: MapReduce algorithm design. Due September 22. 
• HW3: Compression, Inverted Indexing, and Popular Passages. Due Sunday, October 16.
• HW4: Graph Algorithms