02226 Activity Plan, Autumn 2004

Lecture Plan, Autumn 2004

All activities take place on Thursday afternoon, starting at 13.00, in Room 205 on the top floor in Building 305. This is a seminar course, which means that the material of the syllabus will mainly be presented by the student participants. Each week, a group of students will be selected to give presentations based on one or more chapters from the textbook and/or the supplementary literature specified for the week concerned; the remaining students (and the teacher) are expected to ask questions on the week's topic(s).

The presentations count towards your examination grade, and you will therefore be required to hand in the slides or other material that you used. You may hand in a hard copy on paper or send the material electronically as a PDF file to the teacher.

In the following plan, the abbreviation Buyya refers to the textbook:

and the abbreviation HPOS refers to the notes: Articles etc. are identified by the authors' names.

Preliminary plan. Subject to change at any time.

Week Date Time Activity Buyya HPOS Topic
1 02 Sep 13.00-15.00 Lecture Ch. 1 Ch. 1 Introduction and group formation
15.15-17.00
2 09 Sep 13.00-14.00 Presentation Ch. 35 -- RS/6000 SP
14.15-15.15 Presentation Ch. 36 -- Scalable clustered Web server
15.30-17.00 Exercises Exercise sheet 1
3 16 Sep 13.00-14.00 Presentation Ch. 26 -- Beowulf
14.15-15.15 Presentation Ch. 28 -- COMPaS
15.30-17.00 Presentation Ch. 29 -- NanOS
4 23 Sep 13.00-14.00 Presentation -- Sect. 4.2 Task synchronisation
14.15-15.15 Presentation -- -- Article: Radovic & Hagersten Efficient Synchronization....
15.30-17.00 Exercises HPOS, exercises 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
5 30 Sep 13.00-14.00 Presentation Ch. 7 -- Metacomputing.
Article: Foster & Kesselman Computational Grids.
14.15-15.15 Presentation Ch. 5 -- High Throughput Computing Clusters.
15.30-17.00 Presentation -- -- Article: Tannenbaum et al. Condor -- A Distributed Job Scheduler.
6 07 Oct 13.00-14.00 Presentation Ch. 3 -- Scalable Services
14.15-15.15 Presentation -- -- Article: Kremien, Kramer & Magee Scalable, Adaptive Load Sharing....
Article: Kremien & Kramer Methodical Analysis....
15.30-17.00 Exercises
- 14 Oct     Autumn holiday
7 21 Oct 13.00-14.00 Presentation Ch. 20 -- Job & Resource Management
Article: Sunderam PVM.
14.15-15.15 Presentation Ch. 21 -- Scheduling Jobs on Clusters
15.30-17.00 Exercises HPOS, exercises 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and Exercise Sheet 2
8 28 Oct 13.00-14.00 Presentation Ch. 23 -- Parallel Program Scheduling
14.15-15.15 Presentation -- Sect.2.4, 2.5 Scheduling
15.30-17.00 Exercises HPOS, exercises 2.7, 2.11, (2.5, 2.9, 2.12).
9 04 Nov 13.00-14.00 Presentation Ch. 24 -- Dynamic Load Balancing
14.15-15.15 Presentation Ch. 25 -- Mapping and Scheduling
15.30-17.00 Exercises HPOS, exercises 3.2, 3.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3.
10 11 Nov 13.00-14.00 Presentation Ch. 14 -- Load Balancing over Networks
14.15-15.15 Presentation Ch. 15 -- Multiple Path Communication
15.30-17.00 Exercises
11 18 Nov 13.00-14.00 Presentation Ch. 19 Ch. 7 Software RAID etc.
14.15-15.15 Presentation -- -- Article: Etoo/Olken/Shoshani
15.30-17.00 Exercises
12 25 Nov 08.00-17.00 Final project.
13 02 Dec 08.00-17.00 Final project.

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Robin Sharp
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