ECE-572 - Parallel and Distributed Computing

Spring 2008

Lecture Schedule & Overheads

01/28 - Lecture 1: Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Computing

02/30  - No Class

 

02/04 - Lecture 2: Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Computing

02/06 Lecture 3: Quiz/Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Computing

02/11 Lecture 4: Readings - Grid Computing Concepts

• Computational Grids, I. Foster and C. Kesselman - Lead: Michael Seiler (Presentation, Discussion)
• Wide-Area Computing: Resource Sharing on a Large Scale, A. Grimshaw, A. Ferrari, F. Knabe and M. Humphrey - Lead: Kevin Bobsein (Presentation, Discussion)

02/13 Lecture 5: Readings - Grid Computing Concepts

• Globus Toolkit Version 4: Software for Service-Oriented Systems, I. Foster - Lead: Mark Adkins (Presentation, Discussion)
• On Death, Taxes, and the Convergence of Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing, Ian Foster and Adriana Iamnitchi - Raghavendra Sidhanti  (Presentation, Discussion)

02/18 Lecture 6: Project Discussions

02/20 Lecture 7: Readings - Desktop Grids - Scavenging

• Condor - A Hunter of Idle Workstations, Michael J. Litzkow, Miron Livny, and Matt W. Mutka - Lead: Ciprian Docan (Presentation, Discussion)
• Condor and the Grid, Douglas Thain, Todd Tannenbaum, and Miron Livny - Lead: Shivangi Chaudhari (Presentation, Discussion)
• Entropia: architecture and performance of an enterprise desktop grid system, Andrew Chien, Brad Calder, Stephen Elbert and Karan Bhatia - Lead: Wen Yeuh (Presentation, Discussion)

02/25 Lecture 8: Readings - Desktop Grids - Volunteer Computing

• SETI@home: an experiment in public-resource computing, D. P. Anderson, J. Cobb, E. Korpela, M. Lebofsky, and D. Werthimer - Lead: Michael Seiler (Presentation, Discussion)
• BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage, David P. Anderson - Lead: Kevin Bobsein (Presentation, Discussion)

02/27 Lecture 9: Readings - Desktop Grids - Volunteer Computing

• Designing a Runtime System for Volunteer Computing, David P. Anderson, Carl Christensen and Bruce Allen - Lead: Mark Adkins (Presentation, Discussion)
• Characterizing and Evaluating Desktop Grid: An Empirical Study, Derrick Kondo, Michela Taufer, Charles L. Brooks III, Henri Casanova, Andrew Chien - Lead: Ciprian Docan (Presentation, Discussion)

03/03, 03/05 Lecture 10 & 11:  Project Discussions

03/10 Lecture 12: Readings - Desktop Grids - I

• Computing on large-scale distributed systems: Xtrem Web architecture, programming models, security, tests and convergence with grid Source, Franck Cappello, Samir Djilali, Gilles Fedak, Thomas Herault, Frederic Magniette, Vincent Neri and Oleg Lodygensky - Lead: Shivangi Chaudhari  (Presentation, Discussion)
• GridSAT: a system for solving satisfiability problems using a computational grid, Wahid Chrabakh and Rich Wolski - Lead: Wen Yeuh  (Presentation, Discussion)

03/12 Lecture 13: Readings - Desktop Grids - II

• Using Content-Addressable Networks for Load Balancing in Desktop Grids, Jik-Soo Kim, Pete Keleher, Michael Marsh, Bobby Bhattacharjee and Alan Sussman - Lead: Michael Seiler (Presentation, Discussion)
• CompuP2P: An Architecture for Internet Computing Using Peer-to-Peer Networks, Rohit Gupta, Varun Sekhri and Arun K. Somani - Lead: Kevin Bobsein (Presentation, Discussion)

03/24 Lecture 14: Readings - Desktop Grids - III

• The Organic Grid: Self-Organizing Computation on a Peer-to-Peer Network, A. J. Chakravarti, G. Baumgartner, M. Lauria - Lead: Mark Adkin (Presentation, Discussion)
• The Almaden OptimalGrid Project, G. Deen, T. Lehman and J. Kaufman - Lead: Kevin Bobsein* (Presentation, Discussion)

03/26 Lecture 15: Readings - Desktop Grids - IV

• A Decentralized Computational Infrastructure for Grid-Based Parallel Asynchronous Iterative Applications, Z. Li and M. Parashar - Lead: Shivangi Chaudhuri (Presentation, Discussion)
• TaskSpaces: A Software Framework for Parallel Bioinformatics on Computational Grids, Hans De Sterck, Rob Markel and Rob Knight - Lead: Wen Yeuh (Presentation, Discussion)

03/31 Lecture 16: Readings - Towards Clouds

• MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat - Lead Ciprian Docan (Presentation, Discussion)
• An Evaluation of Amazon's Grid Computing Services: EC2, S3 and SQS, Simson L. Garfinkel - Lead: Raghavendra Sidhanti  (Presentation, Discussion)

04/02 Lecture 17: Readings - Towards Clouds/Micellaneous

• Project Caroline: Platform as a Service, at Your Service, for Your Service, TS-1991,Presenter: Bob Scheifler - Lead: Michael Seiler (Presentation, Discussion)
• Project Kittyhawk: Building a Global Scale Computer,  Jonathan Appavoo, Volkmar Uhlig, and Amos Waterland - Lead: Mark Adkins (Presentation, Discussion)

04/23 - 04/28 Project Presentations

• Consensus Clustering: Gene Microarray Analysis on the SiCortex SCO72, Sony PS3 and x86, Michael Seiler (Report, Presentation)
• Computing Value-at-Risk Reports on Cell Processors, Ciprian Docan (Report, Presentation)
• Indexing the Internets Photos: The Feasibility of the Cell Broadband Engine in Image Processing Applications, Mark Adkins (Report, Presentation)
• ConZon: Implementation a Condor Computing Cluster on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Kevin Bobsein (Report, Presentation)
• Value-at-Risk on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Raghavendra Sidhanti  (Report, Presentation)