Professor Rassul Ayani, S16 Rm #08-11, email: rassul@comp.nus.edu.sg
Associate Professor
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Since computer networks and
clusters are becoming more and more ubiquitous, the use of parallelism is no
long restricted to privilege access to powerful supercomputers. The main aim of
this module is to provide an in-depth study of some of the recent advances in
distributed computing. Topics covered include HLA (High Level Architecture)
distributed simulation, performance issues in distributed systems, scalable web
servers and issues in peer-to-peer distributed computing. This is a
project-based module and students will have extensive hands-on experience using
the software tools we have developed in our research.
Background Assumed: knowledge of distributed computing or parallel
programming will be useful
Modular Credits: 4
Lecture/Venue:
Consultation Hours: Tuesday,
Reference Textbooks:
1. Parallel
Programming: Techniques and Applications Using Networked Workstations and
Parallel Computers
by Barry Wilkinson and
Michael Allen, Prentice Hall, 1999, ISBN 0-13-671710-1
URL: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~abw/parallel/par_prog/
2. Parallel Computer Architecture: a Hardware/Software
Approach
by David E. Culler, University of
California, Berkeley; Jaswinder Pal Singh, Princeton
University; Anoop Gupta, Stanford University
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998, ISBN: 1-55860-343-3
URL: http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/catalog.asp?ISBN=1-55860-343-3
3.
Articles: Fujimoto's article on
PDES
Assessment: (no exam)
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Active
participation -10%
·
mid-term test-
30% (tentatively on 29/1)
·
3 projects - 60%
·
project
1- performance evaluation of grid solver (20%)
·
Project 2 – Study of
Proxy Cache Pollution (25%)
·
Project 3 - Survey of
Grid Computing (15%)
Important deadlines:
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22/1 Build your project group
·
25/1 midterm exam
·
12/2 report on project 1 is due
·
22/2 project 1 presentation
·
5/3 report on project 2 is due
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8/3 project 2 presentation
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29/3 report on project 3 is due
Quota: 30 students
Instructors:
Professor Rassul Ayani(Adjunct Professor, NUS)
Department of
Microelectronics and Information Technology
Royal
SE-164 40 Kista,
Email: rassul@it.kth.se or rassul@comp.nus.edu.sg
Assoc
Professor
Email: teoym@comp.nus.edu.sg
Course Schedule/Slides:
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date |
topic |
slide |
literature |
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Distributed Algorithms
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8/1, Tue |
Introduction to Parallel and
distributed algorithms |
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11/1, Fri |
Parallel and distributed Discrete
event Simulation (PADS) |
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15/1, Tue |
Distributed Interactive Simulation
(DIS) and High Level Architecture (HLA) |
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|
|
Performance of Distributed
Programs
|
|
|
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18/1, Fri |
Designing a parallel/distributed
program |
|
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22/1, Tue |
Performance
evaluation of distributed programs |
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29/1, Tue |
Mid-term Exam |
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|
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|
WWW as Distributed System
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|
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31/1,Thu |
Structure of WWW |
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1/2, Fri |
Caching in WWW |
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Grid Computing
|
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5/2, Tue |
Grid
Computing: What's Mine is Yours |
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12/2, Tue |
Chinese
New Year – public holiday |
|
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19/2, Tue |
ALiCE
Grid Computing |
|
|
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5/3, Tue |
Grid
Architecture |
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12/3, Tue |
Globus
Toolkit |
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