ECE 678, CS 671 - Advanced Parallel/Distributed Computing Seminar

Fall 1998

CS 198:671 - Index #: 26283 Section #: 01
ECE 332:678 - Index #: 05746 Section #: 01

Course Overview

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• COURSE OBJECTIVE:
  The objective of the advanced seminar course is to inverstigate the state-of-the-art in parallel and distributed computing reseach. This course is will be a companion course to ECE 566 (Parallel and Distributed Computing Technologies) and CS 528 (Parallel Numerical Computing). The emphasis this year will be on programming models and tools for parallel, cluster and metacomputing environments.

• INSTRUCTORS:
  Apostolos Gerasoulis, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
  Office: CoRE 309 Phone: 445-2725 Email: gerasoul@cs.rutgers.edu

  Manish Parashar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Office: CoRE 504 Phone: 445-5388 Email: parashar@ece.rutgers.edu

• CLASS MEETING TIME AND PLACE:
  Thursday, 1:00 - 4:00 PM in Hill 254.

• COURSE DESCRIPTION:
  This course will investigate current reseach in parallel and distributed computing including systems, architectures, programming models, languages and software tools. Topics covered include parallelization and distribution models; parallel architectures; cluster and networked meta-computing systems; parallel/distributed programming; applications; and performance analysis.

  The course will require independent research, presentation and completion of a programming project that will involve problem solving on a parallel and/or networked computing system.

• RESTRICTIONS:
  Only students that have taken either 332:566 or 198:528 can register for this seminar. A maximum of 10 students will be allowed to register.

• READINGS:
  The course will be primarily based on classic and recent reasearch papers from technical journals and conference proceedings. Recommended readings include:
  1. Scalable Parallel Computing K. Hwang & Z. Xu, WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1998.
  2. Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach D. Cullur, J.P. Singh, A. Gupta, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998.
  3. In Search of Cluster: The Ongoing Battle In Lowly Parallel Computing G.F. Pfister, Prentice Hall, 1998.
  4. Java Distributed Computing Jim Farley, O'Reilly Publishers, 1998.
  5. The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide, Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, and Jeri Edwards, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994.
  6. Parallel Programming with MPI P. Pacheco, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1996.
  7. Designing and Building Parallel Programs I. Foster, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

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  Manish Parashar, parashar@ece.rutgers.edu
  Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  Rutgers University

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