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** Comments on '''bimonthly newsletter''' | ** Comments on '''bimonthly newsletter''' | ||
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**** The Official Google blog | **** The Official Google blog | ||
**** Review: Tom's Hardware | **** Review: Tom's Hardware | ||
− | **** Some of the sites listed in [ | + | **** Some of the sites listed in [https://rohidassanap.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/top-40-best-technology-news-websites-the-definitive-list/ this page's] top 40 list. |
*** Recommendation for news aggregator: [http://cloud.feedly.com/#welcome Feedly.com] | *** Recommendation for news aggregator: [http://cloud.feedly.com/#welcome Feedly.com] | ||
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− | * [[CSC352 Homework 5 2013 | Homework 5]] | + | * [[CSC352 Homework 5 2013 | Homework 5]] and [[CSC352 Homework 5 Solution 2013| Solution]] |
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** Finish the [[Tutorial:_Creating_a_Hadoop_Cluster_on_Amazon_AWS | MapReduce lab on AWS]] and make sure you do the [[Tutorial:_Creating_a_Hadoop_Cluster_with_StarCluster_on_Amazon_AWS#Challenge_.23_2 | Challenge 2]] part of the lab. | ** Finish the [[Tutorial:_Creating_a_Hadoop_Cluster_on_Amazon_AWS | MapReduce lab on AWS]] and make sure you do the [[Tutorial:_Creating_a_Hadoop_Cluster_with_StarCluster_on_Amazon_AWS#Challenge_.23_2 | Challenge 2]] part of the lab. | ||
** Food for thought: some videos<br />I suggest one of you connects her laptop to the projection system and you all watch these videos together. After each one, discuss it as a group. Take notes and be ready to share your comments during Thursday's class when we resume our regular schedule. | ** Food for thought: some videos<br />I suggest one of you connects her laptop to the projection system and you all watch these videos together. After each one, discuss it as a group. Take notes and be ready to share your comments during Thursday's class when we resume our regular schedule. | ||
− | *** The Cave 2 Project at the University of Illinois: Just | + | *** The Cave 2 Project at the University of Illinois: Just another hardware solution for presenting the user with a large number of pixels; in this case 27320 x 3072 pixels. ''Short, 3 minutes.'' |
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* '''Thursday''': | * '''Thursday''': | ||
** <font color="magenta">Tentative guest lecture: Nick Howe on CUDA and GPUs</font> | ** <font color="magenta">Tentative guest lecture: Nick Howe on CUDA and GPUs</font> | ||
− | ** Going over Homework #5 | + | ** Some thoughts about INFOCOMP 2013 ([[CSC352 Keynote Presentations 2013| keynote]]) |
− | + | ** Going over Homework #5 ([[CSC352 Walking a 2-Level Directory in C| Walking a 2-Level Directory in C]]) | |
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** <font color="red">No newsletter due</font> | ** <font color="red">No newsletter due</font> | ||
** <font color="goldenrod">Paper presentation</font>: [[Media:AViewOfCloudComputing_CACM_Apr2010.pdf| A View of Cloud Computing]] presented by Danaë. | ** <font color="goldenrod">Paper presentation</font>: [[Media:AViewOfCloudComputing_CACM_Apr2010.pdf| A View of Cloud Computing]] presented by Danaë. | ||
+ | ** 5-minute project presentations (everybody) | ||
** Instead of a newsletter, you may turn today a [[CSC352 Project Introduction in Latex | draft of an introduction to your final project]]. If you have too much work this week, you can turn this in on 12/3. | ** Instead of a newsletter, you may turn today a [[CSC352 Project Introduction in Latex | draft of an introduction to your final project]]. If you have too much work this week, you can turn this in on 12/3. | ||
+ | ** [[Tutorial: A bit of Bash | A bit of Bash]] | ||
+ | ** The challenges of the [[Tutorial:_Running_a_Python_version_of_WorkCount_on_an_AWS_cluster| MapReducing in Python]] lab | ||
* '''Thursday''': <font color="magenta">Thanksgiving Break</font> | * '''Thursday''': <font color="magenta">Thanksgiving Break</font> | ||
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** <font color="goldenrod">Paper presentation</font>: [[Media:unreasonableEffectivenessOfData2009_HalevyNorvigPereira.pdf | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data]] presented by Julia | ** <font color="goldenrod">Paper presentation</font>: [[Media:unreasonableEffectivenessOfData2009_HalevyNorvigPereira.pdf | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data]] presented by Julia | ||
** Instead of a newsletter, you need to turn in a [[CSC352 Project Introduction in Latex | draft of an introduction to your final project]] (unless you submitted it last week). | ** Instead of a newsletter, you need to turn in a [[CSC352 Project Introduction in Latex | draft of an introduction to your final project]] (unless you submitted it last week). | ||
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+ | ** The challenges of the [[Tutorial:_Running_a_Python_version_of_WorkCount_on_an_AWS_cluster| MapReducing in Python]] lab. We have done Challenge #1 last time. We'll look at Challenge #2 and #3. | ||
+ | ** Some feedback on Homework #5 and one [[CSC352 Homework 5 Solution 2013| solution]]. | ||
+ | ** MapReduce task graphs | ||
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* '''Thursday''' | * '''Thursday''' | ||
− | + | ** [[Hadoop_Tutorial_1.1_--_Generating_Task_Timelines | Distribution of Map and Reduce tasks over time]] | |
+ | ** Project work and discussion | ||
+ | ** 20-minute individual session (in class) to go over project, questions, setup, etc... | ||
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+ | ==Smith Elements of Style== | ||
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+ | * [[media:SmithJacobsonCenterWritingPapers-1.pdf | "Writing Papers" from the Smith College Jacobson Center for writing]] | ||
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==On-Line Resources== | ==On-Line Resources== | ||
* [https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/ Introduction to Parallel Processing], by Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A good read. Covers most of the important topics. | * [https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/ Introduction to Parallel Processing], by Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A good read. Covers most of the important topics. |
Latest revision as of 12:31, 31 January 2017
--D. Thiebaut (talk) 11:15, 9 August 2013 (EDT)
Contents
Weekly Schedule
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Week 1 9/3 |
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Week 2 9/10 |
(last slide taken from [www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/352/lectures/16.pdf http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/352/lectures/16.pdf])
(Image taken from URL: http://www.altera.com/technology/system-design/articles/2012/multicore-many-core.html)
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Week 3 9/17 |
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All the data structures of interest (concurrent non-blocking and blocking) can be found in the Oracle documentation. The information is a bit cryptic, but you need to get comfortable with it! |
Week 4 9/24 |
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Week 5 10/1 |
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Week 6 10/8 |
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Week 7 10/15 |
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Week 8 10/22 |
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Week 9 10/29 |
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Week 10 11/5 |
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Week 11 11/12 |
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Yahoo has some very good reading material on Hadoop. One reason is that they may be one of the largest users of AWS and of Hadoop.
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Week 12 11/19 |
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Week 13 11/26 |
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Week 14 12/3 |
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Week 15 12/10 |
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Links and Resources
Latex
- Latex tutorial (video)
- How to write a thesis in Latex (video)
- Presentations with Beamer (video)
- TikZ examples (video)
Smith Elements of Style
On-Line Resources
- Introduction to Parallel Processing, by Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A good read. Covers most of the important topics.
- Introduction to MPI, by Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Another short but excellent coverage of a topic in parallel processing, this time MPI.
- A 90-Minute Guide to Modern Microprocessors
Classics
- Designing and Building Parallel Programs, by Ian Foster. A relatively old reference (1995), with still good information.
Papers
This is a tentative and non exhaustive list of papers scheduled for reading this semester.
Introduction
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General/Parallelism
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MPI
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GPUs
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Virtualization
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Cloud
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Project-Related
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