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Subject |
Chapter |
Assignment |
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1st |
3/6 Mon |
Introduction to Cluster |
Ch.1-4 |
Section C1.2* |
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3/10 Fri |
Parallel Architecture |
Ch.C1 |
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2nd |
3/13 Mon |
Architecture Convergence |
Ch.C1 |
Ch.B1*
Paper #1 |
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3/17 Fri |
* No class |
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3rd |
3/20 Mon |
Cluster Hardware |
Ch.5 |
Interconnect
(see below)
Paper #2 |
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3/24 Fri |
Symmetric Multiprocessors |
Ch.6 |
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4th |
3/27 Mon |
SMP (2) |
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Paper #3 |
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3/31 Fri |
NUMA and Friends |
Ch.7 |
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5th |
4/3 Mon |
DSM and SVM |
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Proposal |
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4/7 Fri |
* No Class |
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Paper #4 |
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6th |
4/10 Mon |
Project presentation |
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4/13 Thr |
Project presentation |
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4/14 Fri |
Basic Programming Models |
Ch.9 |
Paper #5 |
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7th |
4/17 Mon |
* Midterm Exam |
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4/21 Fri |
* No Class (Exam) |
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8th |
4/24 Mon |
Midterm & Project Review |
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4/28 Fri |
Basic Programming Models |
Ch.9 |
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9th |
5/1 Mon |
Commercial Programmoing Models |
Ch.10 |
Paper #6 |
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5/5 Fri |
* No Class (Holiday) |
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10th |
5/8 Mon |
High Speed Networks |
Ch.B9,
Quiz (5.5) |
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5/12 Fri |
Network Interface (DMA, PIO, Pinning) |
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Paper #7
Draft |
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11th |
5/15 Mon |
Myrinet Programming (MCP, LANai 3.0) |
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5/19 Fri |
* No Class (School Event) |
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12th |
5/22 Mon |
Leightweight Messaging Systems (FM, AM) |
Ch.B10 |
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5/26 Fri |
Project Presentation |
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13th |
5/29 Mon |
Project Presentation |
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6/2 Fri |
Parallel I/O, Software RAID |
Ch.B18,B19 |
Final |
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14th |
6/5 Mon |
* Final Exam |
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6/9 Fri |
* No Class (Exam) |
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* Chapters beginning with letter "B" are from Rajkumar Buyya, High
Performance Cluster Computing, Vol.1, Archtectures and Systems,
Prentce-Hall, Inc., 1999.
* Chapters beginning with letter "C" are fromDavid Culler and Jaswinder
Pal Singh with Anoop Gupta, Parallel Computer Architecture, A Hardware
/Software Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
* Due dates of reading assignments are next class, and those of
homeworks are 2 weeks after the assignment dates.
* Interconnection technologies
SCI (Dolphin) http://www.dolphinics.com/pdf_filer/PCI_SCI_Overview.pdf
ServerNet (Tandem, now Compaq) http://www.servernet.com/flat/public/cgi-bin/Webdriver.exe-MIval=snBase&PA GE=snHardware.htm
Memory Channel (Digital, now Compaq) http://www.digital.com/DTJP03/ |
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