02226 Teaching Material

Course literature consists of a main textbook, together with some notes and a number of articles from journals which are mandatory reading.

Textbook

Rajkumar Buyya: "High Performance Cluster Computing, Vol. 1" (Prentice Hall PTR, 1999) ISBN 0-13-013784-7.

This is available from Polyteknisk Boghandel.

Notes

Robin Sharp: "High Performance Operating Systems"

These notes provide additional information on selected topics in the course.

Contents
Chapters 1 and 2: "Introduction" and "Scheduling"
Chapter 3: "Memory Management"
Chapter 4: "Task Management and Synchronisation"
Chapter 5: "Inter-Process Communication"
Chapter 6: "Device Handlers"
Chapter 7: "File Systems"
Chapter 9: "The Challenge of Multimedia"
References
Index

These files are all in PostScript format.

Please note that access to this text is only available from computers in the dtu.dk domain!

Articles

Copies of the following articles are available via DADS, DTV's journal and conference proceedings service. You can log in to DADS via CampusNet: use the link to DTV on the CampusNet home page. In the Activity calendar for the course, you can also find CiteSeer or direct links to this material.

Zoran Radovic and Erik Hagersten: "Efficient Synchronization for Nonuniform Commuication Architectures", Proceedings of SC2002: High Performance Networking and Computing Conference, Baltimore (November 2002).
Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman: "Computational Grids". Chapter 2 of "The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure" (Morgan-Kaufman, 1999).
Orly Kremien, Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee: "Scalable, Adaptive Load Sharing for Distributed Systems", IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology, pp.62-70 (August 1993).
Orly Kremien and Jeff Kramer: "Methodical Analysis of Adaptive Load Sharing Algorithms", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol.3(6), pp.747-760 (November 1992).
Todd Tannenbaum, Derek Wright, Karen Miller and Miron Livny: "Condor -- A Distributed Job Scheduler", In: Thomas Sterling (ed.), Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux (MIT Press, 2002).
Ekow Otoo, Frank Olken and Arie Shoshani: "Disk Cache Replacement Algorithm for Storage Resource Managers in Data Grids", Proceedings of SC2002: High Performance Networking and Computing Conference, Baltimore (November 2002).

Links to relevant articles will appear as time goes by, and not later than you need them for following the lectures. Copies can only be obtained directly from the Web.

to the home page of the course.

Last modified 040816, 17:00.

Robin Sharp
robin@imm.dtu.dk