magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:lezioni11.12

Journal of Lessons, SPD year 2011-2012

10/10/2011 lesson canceled
12/10/2011 MPI lesson 6 — Collective communication, introduction; BCAST, BARRIER, GATHER. Extent and size manipulation for user-derived datatypes; interaction with point-to-point and collectives (recap of the definition, MPI_GET_EXTENT, MPI_CREATE_TYPE_RESIZED, MPI_GET_TRUE_EXTENT).
13/10/2011 MPI lab 2
14/10/2011

24/10/2011 TBB — Introduction to the Thread Building Blocks Library. History, current programming models (parallel patterns and C++ generics, task generation and scheduling over threads), examples of basic parallel patterns (parallel for, reduce), examples of concurrency-aware containers (hashmaps, vectors, queues) and related issues, concurrency control via mutex objects.
26/10/2011 MPI lab 3
27/10/2011 MPI lab 4
28/10/2011 To be confirmed

31/10/2011 KDD and Data Mining Algorithms — the K-means algorithm as a parallelization example. MPI parallelization.

14/11/2011 Grid to Cloud Computing — Survey of the Grid Computing paradigm. Key ideas, research and implementation issues. The concept of middleware; main functions Grid middleware has to provide. Limits of the approach as it was carried on: scalability, lack of a compelling business model. Differences with respect to Cloud Computing: HW Virtualization, consequences on the business models of Providers and users; reversal of the administration burden, everything-as-a-service metaphor : IaaS, PaaS, SaaS levels. Dinamicity and elasticity as a primary requirement. HPC orientation vs Service Orientation.
16/11/2011 Grid to Cloud Computing XtreemOS (1)
17/11/2011 Grid to Cloud Computing XtreemOS (2)

Date	Slides	Student notes	Other information
19-20/9/2011	Course Intro MPI part 1		Relevant Material from MPI standard: Chapter 1: have a look at it; Chapter 2: sec. 2.3, 2.4, 2.5.1, 2.5.4, 2.5.6, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.7, 2.8; Chapter 3: sec. 3.1, 3.2.3, 3.4; 3.5, (skim through 3.7).
20-21/9/2011	MPI part 2		Chapter 3: sec. 3.2, 3.3; Chapter 4: all paragraphs related to mentioned datatypes
3/10/2011	MPI part 3		Chapter 3: sec. 3.5, 3.6 (3.6.1 can be skipped), 3.7, 3.11 (persistent comm.s and sendRecv are 3.9, 3.10) Chapter 4: sec. 4.1 – to 4.1.2, (skip 4.1.3, 4.1.4), 4.1.9 – 4.1.11
5-7/10/2011 13/10/2011	MPI Part 4 + Lab 1,2		Chapter 6: up to 6.5 (skip intercommunicators)
12/10/2011	MPI part 5
9/11/2011	MPI part 6	K-means sequential code Articolo Dhillon/Modha su parallel k-means
14/11/2011	Grid and Cloud Introductory Slides		Foster, Kesselman, Tuecke, The Anatomy of the Grid Craig Lee, A perspective on scientific cloud computing - HPDC2010 “The Future Of Cloud Computing” – report of EU expert group
16-17/11/2011	XtreemOS slides		See paper Virtual Organization Support within a Grid-Wide Operating System
28/11/2011	Slides about ASSIST, part I		Assist coding examples