Cluster Computing and Applications

Fall 2006

Chao-Tung YangDepartment of Computer Science an

d Information EngineeringTunghai University

Taichung, 40704, Taiwanctyang@thu.edu.tw

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Course Outline (50 hrs) Introduction (1 hr) Parallel Computers (3 hrs) Cluster Systems (3 hrs) PC Cluster Setup and Demo (3 hrs) Message Passing Programming (9 hrs) Parallel Computing (12hrs) DRBL Setup and Demo (1hr) Performance Evaluation (2hrs) Multithreaded Programming (3 hrs) Grid Computing (4 hrs) Case Studies of Cluster Computing (9 hrs)

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Grading Course Participate: 10% Homework: 50%

A PC cluster setup and demo: 10% MPI programming: 10% DRBL diskless cluster setup: 10% HPCC setup and report: 10% A Report on Top 500: 10%

Project and Demo: 30% Select a topic System model and setup Presentation Write a report and demo

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Materials (cont.)

Text book for Cluster Computing Parallel Programming Techniques

and Applications Using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers

Barry Wilkinson and Michael Allen

Prentice Hall, Second Edition, 2004 http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/aca

demic/product/0,1144,0131405632,00.html

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Materials

Reference book for Cluster Computing Parallel Programming in C with M

PI and OpenMP Quinn, Michael J. McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/

Math McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, First Edition, 2004

http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/getbook.php?isbn=0072822562

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Materials (cont.)

Reference book for Cluster Computing Beowulf Cluster Computing with Lin

ux William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, Thomas

Sterling MIT Press, Second Edition (Scientific

and Engineering Computation), 2003 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/it

em/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=9947

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Materials (cont.)

Reference book for Cluster Computing High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Roc

ks, OpenMosix, and MPI Joseph D. Sloan O'Reilly; 1 edition (November 16, 2004) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/highperlinuxc/

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Materials (cont.)

Text book for Grid Computing A Networking Approach to Grid Comput

ing Daniel Minoli Wiley-Interscience (October 15, 2004) http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitl

e/productCd-0471687561.html

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Materials (cont.)

Reference Book for Grid Computing The Grid: Core Technologies Distributed Data Management f

or Grid Computing Distributed and Parallel System

s: Cluster and Grid Computing (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

Grid Computing for Developers (Programming Series)

http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-WILEYASIA_SEARCH_RESULT.html?queryText=Grid%20Computing&field=keyword

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Resources Technical Papers

http://www.springerlink.com/home/main.mpx http://www.sciencedirect.com/ http://sdos.ejournal.ascc.net/ http://portal.acm.org/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/index.jsp

Conferences http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/conferences.html http://grid.hust.edu.cn:8080/call/cfp.jsp http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/index.jsp http://nr.stic.gov.tw/conf/